Job 3:10
Because God closed not against me the doors of the womb, and thus concealed trouble from my eyes.
Leeser Tanakh
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
Cross References
Genesis 29:31And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
Job 6:2Oh that my vexation could be truly weighed, and my calamity; oh that men might lift it up in the balances at once!
Job 10:18Wherefore then didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had perished, and that no eye had seen me!
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man were to beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years were many, and his soul were not satisfied with what is good, and he have not had even a burial: then do I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Jeremiah 20:17Because I was not slain [as I escaped] from the womb; or that my mother might have become unto me my grave, and her womb have been affected with a perpetual pregnancy.
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 →