Job 10:18
Cross References

Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me!

Job 3:11
Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?

Job 10:19
I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 23:17
For I have not perished because of the darkness that hangs over me, neither hath the mist covered my face.

Psalm 71:6
By thee have I been confirmed from the womb: from my mother's womb thou art my protector. Of thee I shall continually sing:

Jeremiah 20:17
Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.

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Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me!

hast thou

Job 3:10,11 Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes. . . .

Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.

Jeremiah 20:14-18 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed. . . .

Matthew 26:24 The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him. But woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed. It were better for him, if that man had not been born.

given up

Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked shall decay, and the way to escape shall fail them, and their hope the abomination of the soul.

Job 14:10 But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?

Context
Job's Plea to God
17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and multipliest thy wrath upon me, and pains war against me. 18Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me!19I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.…
Lexicon
Why then
וְלָ֣מָּה (wə·lām·māh)
Conjunctive waw | Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

did You bring me
הֹצֵאתָ֑נִי (hō·ṣê·ṯā·nî)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

from the womb?
מֵ֭רֶחֶם (mê·re·ḥem)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7358: The womb

Oh, that I had died,
אֶ֝גְוַ֗ע (’eḡ·wa‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1478: To breathe out, expire

and no
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

eye
וְעַ֣יִן (wə·‘a·yin)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5869: An eye, a fountain

had seen me!
תִרְאֵֽנִי׃ (ṯir·’ê·nî)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7200: To see


Additional Translations
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!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!

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,

And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

Why then hast thou brought me forth from the womb? O that I had expired, and no eye had seen me!

"'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.
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