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Job 10:18 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“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!”

Job 10:18

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16

For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

17

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war {are} against me. {witnesses: that is, plagues}

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!

19

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

20

{Are} not my days few? cease {then, and} let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

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