Job 10:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

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  • Ps 58:8 : 8 Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

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  • 18 Why 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,

  • 16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

  • Job 3:10-13
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    10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

    11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

    12 Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?

    13 For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,

  • Job 10:20-21
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    20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

    21 Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17 Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.

    18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

  • 13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • Job 6:9-11
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    9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

    10 So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

    11 Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?

  • 3 Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.

  • 19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

  • Isa 38:10-12
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    10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

    11 I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.

    12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

  • 1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • Job 10:8-10
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    8 Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to destruction.

    9 O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

    10 Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?

  • 14 A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.

  • 16 I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9 But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

    10 I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

  • 10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • 10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

  • 12 I have gone from men's minds and memory like a dead man; I am like a broken vessel.

  • 19 But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.

  • 13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

  • 15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

  • 6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

  • 2 If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!

  • 17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

  • 19 Sorrow is mine for I am wounded! my wound may not be made well; and I said, Cruel is my disease, I may not be free from it.

  • 47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

  • 17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

  • 29 You will not let me be clear of sin! why then do I take trouble for nothing?

  • 8 The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.

  • 21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

  • 6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

  • 10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • 4 I am numbered among those who go down into the earth; I have become like a man for whom there is no help:

  • 15 Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

  • 21 I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.

  • 22 For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

  • 13 I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

  • 15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.