Job 10:18

World English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ If I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity. ¹⁵ If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, Being filled with disgrace, And conscious of my affliction. ¹⁶ If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me. ¹⁷ You renew your witnesses against me, And increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me. ¹⁸ "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, 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 Aren't my days few? Cease then, Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort, ²¹ Before I go where I shall not return from, To the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; ²² The land dark as midnight, Of the shadow of death, without any order, Where the light is as midnight.'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

hast thou: Job 3:10, Job 3:11, Jeremiah 15:10, Jeremiah 20:14-18, Matthew 26:24

given up: Job 11:20, Job 14:10

Reciprocal: Job 3:3 - Let the day Ecclesiastes 4:3 - better Jeremiah 20:17 - he slew

Cross-References

Genesis 10:16
the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,

Genesis 10:17
the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,

Numbers 34:8
from Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad;

Joshua 18:22
and Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,

2 Samuel 8:9
When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the host of Hadadezer,

2 Kings 17:24
The king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath and Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and lived in the cities of it.

2 Kings 17:30
The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

2 Chronicles 13:4
Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, and said, Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel:

Isaiah 10:9
Isn't Calno as Carchemish? Isn't Hamath as Arpad? Isn't Samaria as Damascus?

Ezekiel 27:8
The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers: your wise men, Tyre, were in you, they were your pilots.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb?.... Into this world; this act is rightly ascribed by Job to the Lord, as it is by David, Psalms 22:9; which kind act of God Job complains of, and wishes it had never been, seeing his life was now so miserable and uncomfortable; here he returns to his former complaints, wishes, and expostulations, expressed with so much vehemence and passion in

Job 10:3; and for which his friends blamed him, and endeavoured to convince him of his error in so doing; but it does not appear that their arguments carried any force in them with him, or had any effect upon him; he still continues in the same mind, and by repeating justifies what he had said; and thought he had sufficient reason to wish he had never been born, that he had died in the womb, since his afflictions were so very great and increasing, and since God pursued him as a fierce lion; and, according to his sense of things, his indignation against him appeared more and more, and his life was a continued succession of trouble and distress:

and that I had given up the ghost; that is, in the womb, and had never been brought out of it, at least alive; or it may be rendered not as a wish, but as an affirmation, "I should have given up the ghost"; or, "so or then I should have expired" e; if such care had not been taken of me, if God had not been so officious to me as to take me out of my mother's womb at the proper time, I should have died in it, and that would have been my grave; and which would have been more eligible than to come into the world, and live such a miserable life as I now live:

and no eye had seen me! no eye would have seen him, had he not been taken out of the womb; or however if he had died directly, would not have seen him alive; and an abortive or stillborn child few see, or care to see; and had he been such an one, he had never been seen in the circumstances he now was; and by this he suggests, that he was now such a shocking sight as was not fit to be seen by men, and which would have been prevented had he died in the womb.

e אגוע "expirabo", Montanus; "expirassem", Mercerus, Cocceius, Schmidt, Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth - See the notes at Job 3:11.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 10:18. Wherefore then — Why didst thou give me a being, when thou didst foresee I should be exposed to such incredible hardships? See on Job 3:10, &c.