◄ Job 10:19 ►
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Good News Translation
To go from the womb straight to the grave would have been as good as never existing.

New Revised Standard Version
and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

Contemporary English Version
and been carried to the grave without ever breathing.

New American Bible
I should be as though I had never lived; I should have been taken from the womb to the grave.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

Psalm 58:8 Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.

Context
Job's Plea to God
…18Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me! 19I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.20Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:…
Cross References
Job 3:11
Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?

Job 10:18
Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me!

Job 10:20
Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? Suffer me, therefore, that I may lament my sorrow a little:

Job 23:17
For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over me, neither hath the mist covered my face.

Jeremiah 20:17
Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.

Job 10:18
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