Job 10:18
What does Job 10:18 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 10:18 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Wherefore 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 · 1611Wherefore 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 · 1901Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me!
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.
Context
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?
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