Job 3:11
Why did I not die in the womb? Having left the womb, why did I not immediately perish?
Catholic Public Domain 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
10For it did not close the doors of the womb that bore me, nor take away evils from my eyes.
12Why was I received upon the knees? Why was I suckled at the breasts?
Cross References
Psalms 71:6He will descend like rain upon fleece, and like showers showering upon the earth.
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.
Isaiah 46:3Listen to me, house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who are carried in my bosom, who were born from my womb.
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 →