Job 3:11
Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
In Context
10Because it did not shut up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
Cross References
Psalms 22:9But thou are he who took me out of the womb. Thou made me trust upon my mother's breasts.
Psalms 71:6By thee I have been held up from the womb. Thou are he who took me out of my mother's bowels. My praise shall be continually of thee.
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.
Isaiah 46:3Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne [by me] from their birth, who have been carried from the womb.
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 →