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

Other Translations of Job 10:19

New International Version

19 If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!

English Standard Version

19 and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

The Message

19 I wish I'd never lived - a stillborn, buried without ever having breathed.

New King James Version

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

New Living Translation

19 It would be as though I had never existed, going directly from the womb to the grave.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 10:19

Commentary on Job 10:14-22

(Read Job 10:14-22)

Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy the work of his hands in any humble believer; but will renew him unto holiness, that he may enjoy eternal life. If anguish on earth renders the grave a desirable refuge, what will be their condition who are condemned to the blackness of darkness for ever? Let every sinner seek deliverance from that dreadful state, and every believer be thankful to Jesus, who delivereth from the wrath to come.