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Job 10:19 KJV

Job · chapter 10 · verse 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 context

17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

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Commentary

Here we have, I. Job's passionate complaints. On this harsh and unpleasant string he harps much, in which, though he cannot be justified, he may be excused. He complained not for nothing, as the murmuring Israelites, but had cause to complain.

— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 14-22

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