Job 3:11
Wherefore did I not die from the womb, come forth from the belly and expire?
Darby Translation
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 shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
12Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
Cross References
Psalms 22:9But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me trust, upon my mother's breasts.
Psalms 71:6On thee have I been stayed from the womb; from the bowels of my mother thou didst draw me forth: my praise shall be continually of thee.
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.
Isaiah 46:3Hearken unto me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, ye who have been borne from the belly, who have been carried from the womb:
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 →