Job 3:11
Why wasn't I stillborn? Why didn't I die at birth?
Free Bible 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
10for it did not shut my mother's womb to prevent me from seeing trouble.
12Why was there a lap for me to lie on, or breasts for me to suck?
Cross References
Psalms 22:9However, you brought me safely through birth, and led me to trust in you at my mother's breasts.
Psalms 71:6I have depended on you since birth; you have taken care of me from my mother's womb. That's why I'm always praising you!
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.
Isaiah 46:3Listen to me, descendants of Jacob, all those who are left of the people of Israel. I have looked after you since you were born, carrying you from birth.
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 →