Job 10:18
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
BSB
ASV
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
KJV
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!
COMMENTARY ON JOB 10:18-22 (398)
Someone could think that Job's statement comes from desperation, but that is proven wrong by what God has said: "Do you believe I treated you like this for any other reason than to reveal your righteousness?" Job, who previously had said, "If I am wicked, …
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Matthew 26:24The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been…
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But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:
And He told them, “This is what is written: The Christ will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day,
Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!
Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end…
For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
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Job 11:20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
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Among those nations you will find no repose, not even a resting place for the sole of your foot. There the LORD will give you a trembling heart, failing eyes, and a despairing soul.
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Jeremiah 15:10Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
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Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.