Job 3:11
Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not perish at birth?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
Cross References
Psalms 22:9(22-10) For Thou art He that took me out of the womb; Thou madest me trust when I was upon my mother's breasts.
Psalms 71:6Upon Thee have I stayed myself from birth; Thou art He that took me out of my mother's womb; my praise is 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 have not enough of 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 are borne by Me from the birth, that are 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 →