JOB 10:18 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) ⇔ So why did you allow me to come out from the womb?
⇔ Better if I’d expired and no one had seen me.

Key: khaki:verbs, red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Ἱνατί οὖν ἐκ κοιλίας με ἐξήγαγες, καὶ οὐκ ἀπέθανον, ὀφθαλμὸς δέ με οὐκ εἶδε,
(Hinati oun ek koilias me exaʸgages, kai ouk apethanon, ofthalmos de me ouk eide, )

BrTr Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? and why did I not die, and no eye see me,

ULT So why did you bring me out from the womb?
⇔ Would that I had expired and an eye had not seen me!

UST God, you should not have allowed my mother to give birth to me!
⇔ I wish that I had died at birth!
⇔ Yes, I wish that my parents had never shown me to anyone.

BSB ⇔ Why then did You bring me from the womb?
⇔ Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

OEB O why from the womb didst Thou bring me?
⇔ O why died I not all unseen?

WEBBE ⇔ “‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb?
⇔ I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET “Why then did you bring me out from the womb?
⇔ I should have died
⇔ and no eye would have seen me!

LSV And why from the womb
Have You brought me forth? I expire, and the eye does not see me.

FBV So why did you allow me to be born?[fn] I wish that I had died, and nobody had ever seen me!

10:18 Literally, “bring me forth from the womb.”

T4T ⇔ “'God, why did you allow me to be born?
⇔ I wish/desire that I had died before anyone [SYN] saw me.

LEB • [fn] why did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have passed away,[fn]

10:? Hebrew “And”

10:? Literally “and an eye should not have seen me”

BBE 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,

Moff No Moff JOB book available

JPS Wherefore then hast Thou brought me forth out of the womb? Would that I had perished, and no eye had seen me!

ASV ⇔ Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb?
⇔ I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

DRA Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb: O that I had been consumed that eye might not see me!

YLT And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.

Drby And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.

RV Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

Wbstr Why then hast thou brought me forth from the womb? O that I had expired, and no eye had seen me!

KJB-1769 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!
(Wherefore then hast thou/you brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! )

KJB-1611 [fn]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!
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)

10:18 Chap.3. 11.

Bshps Wherfore hast thou brought me out of the wombe? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seene me,
(Wherefore hast thou/you brought me out of the womb? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seen me,)

Gnva Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!
(Wherefore then hast thou/you brought me out of the womb? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seen me! )

Cvdl Wherfore hast thou brought me out of my mothers wombe? O that I had perished, & that no eye had sene me.
(Wherefore hast thou/you brought me out of my mothers womb? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seen me.)

Wycl Whi hast thou led me out of the wombe? `And Y wolde, that Y were wastid, lest an iye `schulde se me.
(Whi hast thou/you led me out of the womb? `And I would, that I were wastid, lest an iye should see me.)

Luth Warum hast du mich aus Mutterleibe kommen lassen? Ach, daß ich wäre umkommen, und mich nie kein Auge gesehen hätte!
(Warum have you me out_of Mutterleibe coming lassen? Ach, that I wäre umkommen, and me nie kein Auge seen hätte!)

ClVg Quare de vulva eduxisti me? qui utinam consumptus essem, ne oculus me videret.
(Quare about womb eduxisti me? who utinam consumptus essem, not oculus me videret. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

וְ⁠לָ֣⁠מָּה מֵ֭⁠רֶחֶם הֹצֵאתָ֑⁠נִי

and=for=what? of,womb bring_~_out,me

Job is using the question form for emphasis. If you would not use the question form for that purpose in your language, you could translate this as a statement or as an exclamation. Alternate translation: “You should not have brought me out of the womb!”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

וְ⁠לָ֣⁠מָּה מֵ֭⁠רֶחֶם הֹצֵאתָ֑⁠נִי

and=for=what? of,womb bring_~_out,me

Job is speaking of God bringing him out from the womb by association to describe his birth. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “Why did you allow me to be born?” or “You should not have allowed me to be born!”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / euphemism

אֶ֝גְוַ֗ע

died

See how you translated the similar expression in 3:11. Alternate translation: “If only I had passed away”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

וְ⁠עַ֣יִן לֹא־תִרְאֵֽ⁠נִי

and,eye not seen,me

Job is using one part of a person, the eye, to mean all of a person in the act of seeing. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “and no one had ever seen me”

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