Verse 18

Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Hvorfor kom jeg ut av mors liv for å se slit og sorg, slik at mine dager ender i skam?

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Hvorfor kom jeg ut av mors liv for å se slit og sorg, for at mine dager skulle fortæres med skam?

• Norsk King James

  Hvorfor kom jeg ut av mors liv for å se arbeid og sorg, slik at dagene mine skulle bli fortært av skam?

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Hvorfor kom jeg ut av mors liv for å se nød og sorg, slik at mine dager skulle ende i vanære?

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Hvorfor kom jeg ut av mors liv for bare å se slit og sorg, så mine dager ender i skam?

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Hvorfor kom jeg ut av mors liv for å se slit og sorg, så mine dager skulle forsvinne i skam?

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Hvorfor kom jeg så ut av livmoren og ble dømt til slit og sorg, slik at mine dager skulle bli fortært av skam?

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Hvorfor kom jeg ut av mors liv for å se slit og sorg, så mine dager skulle forsvinne i skam?

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Hvorfor kom jeg ut fra mors liv for å se møye og sorg, og mine dager er brukt opp i skam?

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Hvorfor kom jeg ut av mors liv for å se møye og sorg, og ende mine dager i skam?

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Hvorfor kom jeg ud af (Moders) Liv til at see Møie og Sorg, og mine Dage skulle endes med Skamme?

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Hvorfor kom jeg ut av mors liv for å se slit og sorg, og for at mine dager skulle konsumeres med skam?

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Hvorfor kom jeg ut av morslivet for å se slit og sorg, og for at mine dager skulle ende i skam?

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Hvorfor skjedde dette? At jeg kom ut av mors liv for å se slit og sorg og mine dager fortært i skam!

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Hvorfor kom jeg ut av mors liv for å se slit og sorg, så mine dager skulle bruke opp i skam?

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Hvorfor kom jeg ut av min mors liv for å se smerte og sorg, så mine dager skulle ende i skam?

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Wherfore came I forth off my mothers wombe? To haue experience of laboure and sorowe? and to lede my life with shame?

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  How is it, that I came forth of the wombe, to see labour and sorowe, that my dayes shoulde be consumed with shame?

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Wherefore came I foorth of my mothers wombe? to haue experience of labour and sorowe, and to leade my lyfe with shame?

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Why `is' this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

• World English Bible (2000)

  Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  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.

Referenced Verses

• Job 3:20 : 20 Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;
• Job 14:1 : 1 Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
• Lam 3:1 : 1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
• Ps 69:19 : 19 You have known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor; my adversaries are all before you.
• Ps 90:9-9 : 9 For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. 10 The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their strength is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
• 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are honored, but we are despised. 11 Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless. 12 And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure it. 13 Being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.
• 2 Tim 1:12 : 12 For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that day.
• Heb 10:36 : 36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
• Heb 11:36 : 36 Still others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment.
• Heb 12:2 : 2 Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Heb 13:13 : 13 Let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.
• 1 Pet 4:14-16 : 14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you: on their part he is spoken of as evil, but on your part he is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a meddler in other people's matters. 16 Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.
• Gen 3:16-19 : 16 To the woman He said, I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth; in pain you shall bring forth children; your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you. 17 Then to Adam He said, Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; 18 Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the herb of the field; 19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
• Isa 1:6 : 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, nor bound up, nor soothed with ointment.
• Isa 51:7 : 7 Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; do not fear the reproach of men, nor be afraid of their revilings.
• Jer 8:18 : 18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.
• Lam 1:12 : 12 Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is done to me, with which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
• John 16:20 : 20 Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice: and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.
• Acts 5:41 : 41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name.
• Job 14:13 : 13 Oh 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!