Job 1:21

Christian Standard Bible

²¹saying:

Naked I came from my mother’s womb,^(A)
and naked I will leave this life.^[a]^(B)
The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.^(C)

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Footnotes

1:21 Lit will return there; Ps 139:13,15

Job 1:21 in all English translations

Job 10:18-19

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁸“Why did you bring me out of the womb?^(A)
I should have died and never been seen.
¹⁹I wish^[a] I had never existed
but had been carried from the womb to the grave.^(B)

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Footnotes

10:19 Lit As if

Jeremiah 20:17-18

Christian Standard Bible

¹⁷because he didn’t kill me in the womb^(A)
so that my mother might have been my grave,
her womb eternally pregnant.

¹⁸Why did I come out of the womb
to see only struggle and sorrow,^(B)
to end my life in shame?

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