Job 3:11
Why did I not die in the womb, why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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, nor took away evils from my eyes.
12Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts ?
Cross References
Psalms 22:9He hoped in the Lord, let him deliver him: let him save him, seeing he delighteth in him.
Psalms 71:6By thee have I been confirmed from the womb: from my mother's womb thou art my protector. Of thee shall I continually sing:
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.
Isaiah 46:3Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.
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 →