Job 10:18-22
New American Standard Bible
18 ‘(A)Why then did You bring me out of the womb?
If only I had died and no eye had seen me!
19 I should have been as though I had not been,
Brought from womb to tomb.’
20 Would He not leave (B)my few days alone?
[a](C)Withdraw from me so that I may have a little cheerfulness
21 Before I go—(D)and I shall not return—
(E)To the land of darkness and (F)deep shadow,
22 The land of utter gloom like darkness itself,
Of deep shadow without order,
And it shines like darkness.”
Footnotes
- Job 10:20 Lit Put
Job 10:18-22
Common English Bible
Death wish
18 Why did you let me emerge from the womb?
I wish I had died without any eye seeing me.
19 Then I would be just as if I hadn’t existed,
taken from the belly to the grave.
20 Aren’t my few days coming to an end?
Look away from me so I can brighten up a little
21 before I go and don’t return
to a land of deepest darkness,
22 a land whose light is like gloom,
utter darkness and confusion,
such that light shines like gloom.
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