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Job 10:18

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An Appeal for Relief

10:18“Why then did you bring me out from the womb?

I should have died47

and no eye would have seen me!

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Footnotes

  1. 47 The two imperfect verbs in this section are used to stress regrets for something which did not happen (see §107.n).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“Why did you bring me out from the womb?

Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Why then did you bring me out of the womb?

I wish I had died before any eye saw me.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“Why did you bring me out of the womb?

I should have died and never been seen.

NLTNew Living Translation

“ ‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb?

Why didn’t you let me die at birth?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

So why did you bring me forth from the womb?

I should have passed away, and no eye should have seen me.

KJV 1900King James Version

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb?

Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!