“Someone could think that Job's statement comes from desperation, but that is proven wrong by what God has said: "Do you believe I treated you like this for any other reason than to reveal your righteousness?" Job, who previously had said, "If I am wicked, woe to me," does not contradict this assumption but reveals the…”
Didymus the Blind, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 10:18-22
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19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
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17Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
— Job 10:19 —
20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;