Job 10:18

“Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? etc.] Into this world; this act is rightly ascribed by Job to the Lord, as it is by David, (<192209>Psalm 22:9 71:6); 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 (<181003>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…”

“Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth - See the notes at Job 3:11. return to 'Top of Page'”

“hast thou: Job 3:10, Job 3:11; Jer 15:10, Jer 20:14-18; Mat 26:24 given up: Job 11:20, Job 14:10 Job 10:19”

“18 And wherefore hast Thou brought me forth out of the womb? I should have expired, that no eye had seen me, 19 I should have been as though I had never been, Carried from the womb to the grave. 20 Are not my days few? then cease And turn from me, that I may become a little cheerful, 21 Before I go to return no more Into the land of darkness and of the shadow of death, 22 The land of deep darkness like to midnight, Of the shadow of death and of confusion, And which is bright like midnight. The question Wherefore? Job 10:18, is followed by futt. as modi conditionales (Ges. 127, 5) of that which would and should have happened, if God had not permitted him to be born alive: I should have…”