21 saying:

Naked I came from my mother’s womb,(A)
and naked I will leave this life.[a](B)
The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away.
Praise the name of Yahweh.(C)

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  1. Job 1:21 Lit will return there; Ps 139:13,15

21 and said:

“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
    and naked I will depart.[a](A)
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;(B)
    may the name of the Lord be praised.”(C)

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  1. Job 1:21 Or will return there

21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

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18 “Why did You bring me out of the womb?(A)
I should have died and never been seen.
19 I wish[a] I had never existed
but had been carried from the womb to the grave.(B)

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  1. Job 10:19 Lit As if

18 “Why then did you bring me out of the womb?(A)
    I wish I had died before any eye saw me.(B)
19 If only I had never come into being,
    or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!(C)

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18 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!

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

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17 because he didn’t kill me in the womb(A)
so that my mother might have been my grave,
her womb eternally pregnant.
18 Why did I come out of the womb
to see only struggle and sorrow,(B)
to end my life in shame?

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17 For he did not kill me in the womb,(A)
    with my mother as my grave,
    her womb enlarged forever.
18 Why did I ever come out of the womb(B)
    to see trouble(C) and sorrow
    and to end my days in shame?(D)

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17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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