Job 3:10
Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
Darby Translation
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
11Wherefore did I not die from the womb, come forth from the belly and expire?
Cross References
Genesis 29:31And when Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
Job 6:2Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Job 10:18And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred [sons], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.
Jeremiah 20:17because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great [with me]!
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 →