Key Verse Spotlight
Job 10:19 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.”
Job 10:19
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war {are} against me. {witnesses: that is, plagues}
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!
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
{Are} not my days few? cease {then, and} let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
Before I go {whence} I shall not return, {even} to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;
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