Job 3:10
Because it did not shut up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
In Context
11Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
Cross References
Genesis 29:31And LORD saw that Leah was regarded inferior, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Job 6:2O that my grief were but weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Job 10:18Why then have thou brought me forth out of the womb? I would have given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man begets a hundred sons, and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Jeremiah 20:17because he did not kill me from the womb, and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:2-11
Job Curses His Day. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job spake, and said, 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto… Read the whole commentary →