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Job 10:19

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If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

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Matthew Henry Bible Commentaryv. 19

Job owns here that he was full of confusion (Job 10:15), and as he was so was his discourse: he knew not what to say, and perhaps sometimes scarcely knew what he said. In this chapter, I. He complains of the hardships he was under (Job 10:1-7), and then comforts himself with this, that he was in the hand of the God that made him, and pleads that (Job 10:8-13). II. He complains again of the severity of God's dealings with him (Job 10:14-17), and then comforts himself with this, that death would put an end to his troubles (Job 10:18-22).

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Strong's Concordancev. 19

יָבַל (yâbal, H2986) — properly, to flow; causatively, to bring (especially with pomp) בֶּטֶן (beṭen, H990) — the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything קֶבֶר (qeber, H6913) — a sepulchre

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