Job 10:18-19

An Appeal for Relief

10:18 “Why then did you bring me out from the womb?

I should have died ¹ 

and no eye would have seen me!

10:19 I should have been as though I had never existed; ² 

I should have been carried

right from the womb to the grave!

[10:18]  ¹ tn The two imperfect verbs in this section are used to stress regrets for something which did not happen (see GKC 317 §107.n).

[10:19]  ² sn This means “If only I had never come into existence.”