Job 10:18-22
Revised Standard Version
18 “Why didst thou bring me forth from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,
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]
21 before I go whence I shall not return,
to the land of gloom and deep darkness,
22 the land of gloom[c] and chaos,
where light is as darkness.”
Job 10:18-22
American Standard Version
18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb?
I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
19 I should have been as though I had not been;
I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not my days few? [a]cease then,
And let me alone, that I may [b]take comfort a little,
21 Before I go whence I shall not return,
Even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;
22 The land dark as [c]midnight,
The land of the shadow of death, without any order,
And where the light is as [d]midnight.
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