Job 3:11
Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
American Standard 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
10Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother`s] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
Cross References
Psalms 22:9But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust [when I was] upon my mother`s breasts.
Psalms 71:6By thee have I been holden up from the womb; Thou art he that took me out of my mother`s bowels: My praise shall be continually of thee.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
Isaiah 46:3Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have been carried from the womb;
Jeremiah 20:17because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
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 →