Catholic Public Domain Version
"Why did you lead me out of the womb? If only I had been consumed, so that no eye would ever see me! "
— Job 10:18, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!”
“ Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me. ”
“"'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.”
“An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!”
“Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me!”
“Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,”
“Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!”
And if I should be impious, woe to me, and if I should be just, I will not lift up my head, being drenched with affliction and misery.
And because of pride, you will seize me like a lioness, and having returned, you torment me to an extraordinary degree.
You renew your testimony against me, and you multiply your wrath against me, and these punishments make war within me.
Why did you lead me out of the womb? If only I had been consumed, so that no eye would ever see me!
I should have been as if I had not been: transferred from the womb to the tomb.
Will not my few days be completed soon? Release me, therefore, so that I may lament my sorrows a little,
before I depart and return no more to a land that is dark and covered with the fog of death,