Job 3:10
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 died I not from the womb? Why did I not perish at birth?
Cross References
Genesis 29:31And the LORD saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
Job 6:2Oh that my vexation were but weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances altogether!
Job 10:18Wherefore then hast Thou brought me forth out of the womb? Would that I had perished, and no eye had seen me!
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 have not enough of good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he;
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 →