Job 10:19

Modern

If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

Traditional

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

Literal

…as though I had never come to be—that I came from the womb and was carried to the grave!

Latin

Fuissem quasi non essem, de utero translatus ad tumulum.

Hebrew

English

If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

Theme notes and profiles

Psalm 58:8
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.