Job 10:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me. 15 Cursed be the man who made my father very glad when he brought him the news that a baby boy had been born to him! 16 May that man be like the cities that the LORD destroyed without showing any mercy. May he hear a cry of distress in the morning and a battle cry at noon. 17 For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever. 18 Why did I ever come forth from my mother’s womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.
  • Matt 26:24 : 24 The Son of Man will go as it is written about him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for him if he had never been born.”
  • Job 3:10-11 : 10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes! 11 Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
  • Job 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last.”
  • Job 14:10 : 10 But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he?
  • Jer 15:10 : 10 Jeremiah Complains about His Lot and The Lord Responds I said,“Oh, mother, how I regret that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt.”

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  • Job 10:19-21
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    89%

    19I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

    20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

    21before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

  • Job 3:10-12
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    88%

    10because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!

    11Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?

    12Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?

  • Jer 20:17-18
    2 verses
    85%

    17For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.

    18Why did I ever come forth from my mother’s womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.

  • Job 3:16
    82%

    16Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

  • Job 14:13
    77%

    13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

  • Job 3:3
    77%

    3“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said,‘A man has been conceived!’

  • Jer 20:14
    75%

    14Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.

  • Job 10:10
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    10Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

  • Job 10:8
    75%

    8Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    74%

    9Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother’s breasts.

    10I have been dependent on you since birth; from the time I came out of my mother’s womb you have been my God.

  • Job 6:9-11
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    9And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.

    10Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

    11What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

  • Job 10:17
    74%

    17You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.

  • Job 17:1
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    1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

  • Job 7:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.

    16I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!

  • Job 31:15
    73%

    15Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

  • Isa 38:10-11
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    10“I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’

    11“I thought,‘I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.

  • Job 23:17
    73%

    17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

  • Job 17:15
    73%

    15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?

  • Job 7:8
    73%

    8The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.

  • Job 14:3
    73%

    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • Job 7:11-12
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    11Job Remonstrates with God“Therefore, 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 the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?

  • Job 7:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?

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  • Ps 88:14
    72%

    14O LORD, why do you reject me, and pay no attention to me?

  • Job 9:18
    72%

    18He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.

  • Lam 3:6
    72%

    6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.

  • Job 30:19
    72%

    19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

  • Job 13:24
    72%

    24Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

  • Job 9:29
    72%

    29If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?

  • Job 13:19
    72%

    19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

  • Job 13:14
    72%

    14Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands?

  • Job 10:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

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    72%

    47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

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    72%

    10Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!

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    72%

    5No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; you were thrown out into the open field because you were detested on the day you were born.

  • Jonah 4:3
    71%

    3So now, LORD, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”

  • Job 17:13
    71%

    13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

  • Jer 15:10
    71%

    10Jeremiah Complains about His Lot and The Lord Responds I said,“Oh, mother, how I regret that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt.”