Job 10:18-22
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
18 “ ‘Why did you bring me forth from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me(A)
19 and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not the days of my life few?[a]
Let me alone, that I may find a little comfort[b](B)
21 before I go, never to return,
to the land of gloom and deep darkness,
22 the land of gloom[c] and chaos,
where light is like darkness.’ ”
Job 10:18-22
Evangelical Heritage Version
18 Why, then, did you bring me out from the womb?
I wish I had died. Then no eye would have seen me.
19 I wish I had been like someone who never lived.
Then I would have been carried from the womb to the tomb.
20 Don’t I have only a few days?
Stop! Leave me alone, so that I can be happy for a short time,
21 before I walk into the land of darkness
and into the shadow of death, never to return,
22 into the land of gloom, as dark as the shadow of death,
into the land of chaos, where even light is darkness.
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