Job 10:18

Modern

Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

Traditional

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!

Literal

And why did You bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had expired, and an eye had not seen me,

Latin

Quare de vulva eduxisti me? qui utinam consumptus essem, ne oculus me videret.

Hebrew

English

Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

Theme notes and profiles

Jeremiah 20:14–18
Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
Jeremiah 15:10
Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
Job 3:10–11
For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
Job 14:10
But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
Matthew 26:24
The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born.”