Job 3:10
for it did not shut my mother's womb to prevent me from seeing trouble.
Free Bible Version
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 wasn't I stillborn? Why didn't I die at birth?
Cross References
Genesis 29:31When the Lord saw that Leah wasn't loved he helped Leah to have children, but not Rachel.
Job 6:2“If my grief could be weighed and my troubles placed on the scales
Job 10:18So why did you allow me to be born? I wish that I had died, and nobody had ever seen me!
Ecclesiastes 6:3A man could have one hundred children, and grow old, but it wouldn't matter how long his life was if he couldn't enjoy it and at the end receive a decent burial. I would say that a stillborn child would be better off than him.
Jeremiah 20:17because he should have killed me in the womb so that my mother would have been my grave, remaining pregnant forever.
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 →