Job 10:18

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee; making him very glad. 16 And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime; 17 because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. 18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
  • Matt 26:24 : 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 3:10-11 : 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes. 11 Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
  • Job 11:20 : 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.
  • Job 14:10 : 10 But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
  • Jer 15:10 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 10:19-21
    3 verses
    89%

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

    20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

    21Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

  • Job 3:10-12
    3 verses
    88%

    10Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

    11Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

    12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

  • Jer 20:17-18
    2 verses
    85%

    17because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

    18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

  • Job 3:16
    82%

    16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

  • Job 14:13
    77%

    13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • Job 3:3
    77%

    3Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

  • Jer 20:14
    75%

    14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

  • Job 10:10
    75%

    10Hast thou not poured me out as milk, And curdled me like cheese?

  • Job 10:8
    75%

    8Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    74%

    9But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.

    10I was cast upon thee from the womb; Thou art my God since my mother bare me.

  • Job 6:9-11
    3 verses
    74%

    9Even that it would please God to crush me; That he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

    10And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

    11What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?

  • Job 10:17
    74%

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

  • Job 17:1
    74%

    1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

  • Job 7:15-16
    2 verses
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    15So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones.

    16I loathe [my life] ; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

  • Job 31:15
    73%

    15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

  • Isa 38:10-11
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    73%

    10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

    11I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

  • Job 23:17
    73%

    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

  • Job 17:15
    73%

    15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

  • Job 7:8
    73%

    8The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

  • Job 14:3
    73%

    3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?

  • Job 7:11-12
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    11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

    12Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?

  • Job 7:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

    21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

  • Ps 88:14
    72%

    14Jehovah, why castest thou off my soul? Why hidest thou thy face from me?

  • Job 9:18
    72%

    18He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.

  • Lam 3:6
    72%

    6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

  • Job 30:19
    72%

    19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

  • Job 13:24
    72%

    24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And holdest me for thine enemy?

  • Job 9:29
    72%

    29I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

  • Job 13:19
    72%

    19Who is he that will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the ghost.

  • Job 13:14
    72%

    14Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

  • Job 10:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

    2I will say unto God, Do not condemn me; Show me wherefore thou contendest with me.

  • Ps 89:47
    72%

    47Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

  • Ps 39:10
    72%

    10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.

  • Ezek 16:5
    72%

    5No eye pitied thee, to do any of these things unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, for that thy person was abhorred, in the day that thou wast born.

  • Jonah 4:3
    71%

    3Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

  • Job 17:13
    71%

    13If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

  • Jer 15:10
    71%

    10Woe 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.