Job 10:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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About this Translation

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.

Word-for-word

5/5

Readability

2/5

💎 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

👥 Who is this for?

Ideal for

Pastors and teachers
Seminary students
Serious Bible students
Readers conducting word studies
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Referenced Verses

Ps 58:8 : 8 [ Let them be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away, [Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

Job 10:18
89%
18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
Job 3:16
82%
16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
Job 3:10-13
4 verses
81%
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?
13For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,
Job 10:20-21
2 verses
81%
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;
Jer 20:17-18
2 verses
80%
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 14:13
75%
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 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 3:3
73%
3Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
Job 30:19
73%
19He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
Isa 38:10-12
3 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.
12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Job 17:1
73%
1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.
Job 10:8-10
3 verses
73%
8Thy hands have framed me and fashioned me Together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
10Hast thou not poured me out as milk, And curdled me like cheese?
Jer 20:14
72%
14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Job 7:16
72%
16I loathe [my life]; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
Ps 22:9-10
2 verses
72%
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.
Ps 39:10
72%
10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thy hand.
Job 19:10
72%
10He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
Ps 31:12
71%
12I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Jer 11:19
71%
19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Job 17:13
71%
13If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;
Job 17:15
71%
15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?
Lam 3:6
71%
6He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Job 29:2
71%
2Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;
Lam 3:17
71%
17And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.
Jer 10:19
70%
19Woe is me because of my hurt! my wound is grievous: but I said, Truly this is [my] grief, and I must bear it.
Ps 89:47
70%
47Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
Job 23:17
70%
17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
Job 9:29
70%
29I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?
Job 7:8
70%
8The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
Job 7:21
70%
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.
Job 7:6
70%
6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
Ps 31:10
70%
10For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.
Ps 88:4
70%
4I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help,
Job 31:15
70%
15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
Job 9:21
70%
21I am perfect; I regard not myself; I despise my life.
Job 16:22
69%
22For when a few years are come, I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
Job 6:13
69%
13Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?
Isa 38:15
69%
15What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.