Job 3:11
Why did I not die [the moment I issued] from the womb, and [why] was I not born merely to perish at once?
Leeser Tanakh
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 God closed not against me the doors of the womb, and thus concealed trouble from my eyes.
12Wherefore were knees ready to receive me? and for what purpose were breasts there that I might suck?
Cross References
Psalms 22:9(22:10) Yea, thou art he that took me from the womb: thou hast been my trust when I hung on my mother's breasts.
Psalms 71:6By thee have I been supported from my birth: thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb: of thee is my praise continually.
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.
Isaiah 46:3Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who are borne [by me] from their birth, who are carried from the womb;
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 →