Job 3:10
Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
11Why did I not die in the womb, why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?
Cross References
Genesis 29:31And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.
Job 6:2O that my sins, whereby I have deserved wrath, and the calamity that I suffer, were weighed in a balance.
Job 10:18Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb: O that I had been consumed that eye might not see me!
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.
Jeremiah 20:17Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.
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 →