Devine Scripture

Job 10:18

Job chapter 10 · verse 18 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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!

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

Context

v.17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me.

v.18This passage

v.19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 15:10

    Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them doth curse me.

  • Jeremiah 20:14

    Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

  • Job 3:10

    Because it shut not up the doors of mymother’swomb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

  • Job 11:20

    But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, And they shall have no way to flee; And their hope shall be the giving up of the ghost.

  • Matthew 26:24

    The Son of man goeth, even as it is written of him: but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had not been born.

  • Job 14:10

    But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?