Job 10:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

🎯 Translation Approach

A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Readability

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💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

✅ Strengths

High fidelity to original languages
Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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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)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

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
2 verses
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 {H5315} 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
74%
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
2 verses
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
2 verses
73%
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 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.