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Job 10:18

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

KJV

Quare de vulva eduxisti me ? qui utinam consumptus essem, ne oculus me videret.

Vulgate

ἵνα τί οὖν ἐκ κοιλίας με ἐξήγαγες, καὶ οὐκ ἀπέθανον, ὀφθαλμὸς δέ με οὐκ εἶδεν,

LXX

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

ASV

וְ/לָ֣/מָּה מֵ֭/רֶחֶם הֹצֵאתָ֑/נִי אֶ֝גְוַ֗ע וְ/עַ֣יִן לֹא תִרְאֵֽ/נִי

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

יִּגְוַ֨ע
ygv'
verb · 22×
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
verb · 1071×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
רֶ֖חֶם
rchm
noun · 26×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Jer 20:14 — Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
  • Jer 20:17 — Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
  • Job 3:3 — Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
  • Job 3:11 — Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?