Job 10 · Verse 19

Job 10:19

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Job 10:19, King James Version

Job 10:19 in other translations

BSBIf only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
WEBI should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
ASVI should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
YLTAs I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,
DARBYI should be as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
BBEAnd for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.
WebsterI should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

What does Job 10:19 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 19 I should have been as though - Had I given up the ghost as soon as born, as I could not then have been conscious of existence, it would have been, as it respects myself, as though I had never been; being immediately transported from my mother's womb to the grave.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 10:14-22

Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy…

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Job 10:19 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כַּאֲשֶׁ֣רka.'a.Sherjust asH834
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
הָיִ֣יתִיha.Yi.tiI had beenH1961
אֶהְיֶ֑ה'eh.YehI wasH1961
מִ֝בֶּ֗טֶןmi.Be.tenfrom [the] wombH990
לַקֶּ֥בֶרla.Ke.verto the graveH6913
אוּבָֽל\׃'u.ValI was broughtH2986

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 10:19

  • Psalms 58:8

    As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

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Ps 58:8

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Context

  • Job 10:18

    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!

  • Job 10:19

    I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

  • Job 10:20

    Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

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Job 10:19 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Fuera, como si nunca hubiera sido, llevado desde el vientre á la sepultura.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		J’aurais été comme si je n’avais pas été; de la matrice on m’aurait porté au sépulcre!
German
Elberfelder 1871		Als ob ich nicht gewesen wäre, so hätte ich sein sollen, vom Mutterschoße zu Grabe getragen!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Fuissem quasi non essem, de utero translatus ad tumulum.