King James Version
Job 10:18 in the King James Version says “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!” — study this verse from Job chapter 10 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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 10:18 · KJV
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me. witnesses: that is, thy plagues
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!
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone , that I may take comfort a little,
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“and no eye”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“had seen”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
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