Job 10:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

Why then have You brought me forth out of the womb? Oh, that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

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  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born to you; making him very glad. 16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and did not repent: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontime; 17 Because he did not slay me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always great with me. 18 Why did I come 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 goes as it is written about him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! it would have been good for that man if he had not been born.
  • Job 3:10-11 : 10 Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes. 11 Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not expire when I came out of the belly?
  • Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.
  • Job 14:10 : 10 But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
  • Jer 15:10 : 10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on interest, nor men have lent to me on interest; yet every one of them curses me.

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

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    21Before I go to the place from which I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

  • Job 3:10-12
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    10Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

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  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17Because he did not slay me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always great with me.

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    16Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have existed; like infants who never saw light.

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    13Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

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    3Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived.

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

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    10Have You not poured me out like milk, and curdled me like cheese?

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    8Your hands have made and fashioned me together all around; yet You destroy me.

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    15And where now is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

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