Job 10:19
I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!
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- Ps 58:8 : 8 Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun!
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18 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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16 Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?
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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?
12 Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
13 For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
- Job 10:20-212 verses81%
20 Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
21 before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,
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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.
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13 The 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 6:9-113 verses74%
9 And that God would be willing to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and kill me.
10 Then 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.
11 What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
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3 “Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said,‘A man has been conceived!’
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19 He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
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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.
12 My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.
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1 My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
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8 Contradictions in God’s Dealings“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.
9 Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
10 Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?
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14 Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.
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16 I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!
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9 Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother’s breasts.
10 I have been dependent on you since birth; from the time I came out of my mother’s womb you have been my God.
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10 Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!
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10 He tears me down on every side until I perish; he uproots my hope like an uprooted tree.
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12 I am forgotten, like a dead man no one thinks about; I am regarded as worthless, like a broken jar.
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19 Before this I had been like a docile lamb ready to be led to the slaughter. I did not know they were making plans to kill me. I did not know they were saying,“Let’s destroy the tree along with its fruit! Let’s remove Jeremiah from the world of the living so people will not even be reminded of him any more.”
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13 If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
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15 where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?
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6 He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
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2 “O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,
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17 I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.
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19 And I cried out,“We are doomed! Our wound is severe! We once thought,‘This is only an illness. And we will be able to bear it!’
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47 Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
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17 Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.
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29 If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?
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8 The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.
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21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”
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6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
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10 For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.
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4 They treat me like those who descend into the grave. I am like a helpless man,
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15 Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?
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21 I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.
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22 For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.
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13 Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?
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15 What can I say? He has decreed and acted. I will walk slowly all my years because I am overcome with grief.