Job 10:18

New English Translation

¹⁸“Why then did you bring me out from the womb?
I should have died^[a]
and no eye would have seen me!

Job 10:18 tn The two imperfect verbs in this section are used to stress regrets for something which did not happen (see GKC 317 §107.n).

Job 10:18

King James Version

¹⁸Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

¹⁸“Why then did you bring me out of the womb?^(A)
I wish I had died before any eye saw me.^(B)

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