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Why thenוְלָמָּהdid you bring me outהֹצֵאתָנִיfrom the womb?מֵרֶחֶםI would have expired,אֶגְוַעand noוְ לֹאeyeעַיִןwould have seen me.תִרְאֵנִי
Job 10:18
Study it in the app“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I would have expired, and no eye would have seen me.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 10:18, word by word
- did you bring me outהֹצֵאתָhotseta
bring out
To lead someone out: "I led you out of Egypt".
Where else “hotseta” appears- from the wombרֶחֶםrechem
womb
The part of a mother's body where the child grows before birth.
Where else “rechem” appears- I would have expiredאֶגְוַעegva
breathe one's last
Breathe one's last, expire, die.
Where else “egva” appears- eyeעַיִןayin
eye
The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.
Where else “ayin” appears- would have seen meתִרְאֵtire
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “tire” appears
The context
17You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation with me; relays and an army are against me.
18 · This verse (above)
19I would be as though I had not been; from the belly to the grave I would have been carried.