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Job 10:18
“‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
Job 10:18 · World English Bible
Job 10:18 in other translations
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!
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
"'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
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In context
15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.
16 If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.
17 You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
18 “‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
19 I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Aren’t my days few? Stop! Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
21 before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
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