the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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THE MESSAGE
Job 10:18
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“Why did you bring me out of the womb?I should have died and never been seen.
"'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.
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!
"Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
"So why did you allow me to be born? I wish I had died before anyone saw me.
"Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!
'Why then did You bring me out of the womb? Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
'Why then did You bring me out of the womb? If only I had died 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.
Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!
‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb?Would that I had breathed my last and no eye had seen me!
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
Why did you let me be born? I would rather have died before birth
"‘Why did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died there where no eye could see me.
And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.
So why did you let me be born? I wish I had died before anyone saw me.
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Would that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
Why, God, did you let me be born? I should have died before anyone saw me.
So why did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have passed away, and no eye should have seen me.
Why then did You bring me from the womb? I would have died, and no eye seen me.
Wherfore hast thou brought me out of my mothers wombe? O that I had perished, & that no eye had sene 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 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? Would that I had perished, and no eye had seen me!
Wherfore then hast thou brought me forth out of the wombe? Oh that I had giuen vp the ghost, and no eye had seene me!
Wherfore hast thou brought me out of the wombe? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seene me,
Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
Whi hast thou led me out of the wombe? `And Y wolde, that Y were wastid, lest an iye `schulde se me.
Why then have you brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
Why then hast thou brought me forth from the womb? O that I had expired, and no eye had seen me!
"Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
"‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother's womb? Why didn't you let me die at birth?
‘Why then did You let me be born? If only I had died and no one had seen me!
"Why did you bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,
Wherefore then, from the womb, didst thou bring me forth? I might have breathed my last, and, no eye, 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 l
"Why didst thou bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,
And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.
'Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
hast thou: Job 3:10, Job 3:11, Jeremiah 15:10, Jeremiah 20:14-18, Matthew 26:24
given up: Job 11:20, Job 14:10
Reciprocal: Job 3:3 - Let the day Ecclesiastes 4:3 - better Jeremiah 20:17 - he slew
Cross-References
Toi, king of Hamath, heard that David had struck down the entire army of Hadadezer. So he sent his son Joram to King David to greet and congratulate him for fighting and defeating them, for Toi and Hadadezer were old enemies. He brought with him gifts of silver, gold, and bronze. King David consecrated these along with the silver and gold from all the nations he had conquered—from Aram, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, and from Amalek, along with the plunder from Hadadezer son of Rehob king of Zobah.
The king of Assyria brought in people from Babylon, Cuthah, Avva, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, and relocated them in the towns of Samaria, replacing the exiled Israelites. They moved in as if they owned the place and made themselves at home. When the Assyrians first moved in, God was just another god to them; they neither honored nor worshiped him. Then God sent lions among them and people were mauled and killed.
Abijah took a prominent position on Mount Zemaraim in the hill country of Ephraim and gave this speech: "Listen, Jeroboam and all Israel! Don't you realize that God , the one and only God of Israel, established David and his sons as the permanent rulers of Israel, ratified by a ‘covenant of salt'— God 's kingdom ruled by God 's king? And what happened? Jeroboam, the son of Solomon's slave Nebat, rebelled against his master. All the riffraff joined his cause and were too much for Rehoboam, Solomon's true heir. Rehoboam didn't know his way around—besides he was a real wimp; he couldn't stand up against them.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb?.... Into this world; this act is rightly ascribed by Job to the Lord, as it is by David, Psalms 22:9; which kind act of God Job complains of, and wishes it had never been, seeing his life was now so miserable and uncomfortable; here he returns to his former complaints, wishes, and expostulations, expressed with so much vehemence and passion in
Job 10:3; and for which his friends blamed him, and endeavoured to convince him of his error in so doing; but it does not appear that their arguments carried any force in them with him, or had any effect upon him; he still continues in the same mind, and by repeating justifies what he had said; and thought he had sufficient reason to wish he had never been born, that he had died in the womb, since his afflictions were so very great and increasing, and since God pursued him as a fierce lion; and, according to his sense of things, his indignation against him appeared more and more, and his life was a continued succession of trouble and distress:
and that I had given up the ghost; that is, in the womb, and had never been brought out of it, at least alive; or it may be rendered not as a wish, but as an affirmation, "I should have given up the ghost"; or, "so or then I should have expired" e; if such care had not been taken of me, if God had not been so officious to me as to take me out of my mother's womb at the proper time, I should have died in it, and that would have been my grave; and which would have been more eligible than to come into the world, and live such a miserable life as I now live:
and no eye had seen me! no eye would have seen him, had he not been taken out of the womb; or however if he had died directly, would not have seen him alive; and an abortive or stillborn child few see, or care to see; and had he been such an one, he had never been seen in the circumstances he now was; and by this he suggests, that he was now such a shocking sight as was not fit to be seen by men, and which would have been prevented had he died in the womb.
e ××××¢ "expirabo", Montanus; "expirassem", Mercerus, Cocceius, Schmidt, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth - See the notes at Job 3:11.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 10:18. Wherefore then — Why didst thou give me a being, when thou didst foresee I should be exposed to such incredible hardships? See on Job 3:10, &c.
