Job 3:10

For it did not close the doors of the womb that bore me, nor take away evils from my eyes.

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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

9Let the stars be concealed with its darkness. Let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawn in the East.

11Why did I not die in the womb? Having left the womb, why did I not immediately perish?

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Cross References

Genesis 29:31But the Lord, seeing that he despised Leah, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.

Job 6:2I wish that my sins, for which I deserve wrath, and the calamity that I endure, were weighed out on a balance.

Job 10:18Why did you lead me out of the womb? If only I had been consumed, so that no eye would ever see me!

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man were to produce one hundred children, and to live for many years, and to attain to an age of many days, and if his soul were to make no use of the goods of his resources, and if he were lacking even a burial: concerning such a man, I declare that a miscarried child is better than he.

Jeremiah 20:17So let him be, who did not put me to death from the womb, so that my mother would have been my sepulcher, and her womb would have been my eternal resting place!

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 →

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