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
Holman Christian Standard Bible
18 “Why did You bring me out of the womb?(A)
I should have died and never been seen.
19 I wish[a] I had never existed
but had been carried from the womb to the grave.(B)
20 Are my days not few? Stop it![b]
Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little
21 before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,(C)
never to return.
22 It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,
gloomy and chaotic,
where even the light is like[c] the darkness.”
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