Job 3:10
Because it has not shut the doors || Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from my eyes.
Literal Standard Version
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 do I not die from the womb? I have come forth from the belly and gasp!
Cross References
Genesis 29:31And YHWH sees that Leah [is] the hated one, and He opens her womb, and Rachel [is] barren;
Job 6:2“O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, || And my calamity in balances || They would lift up together!
Job 10:18And why from the womb || Have You brought me forth? I expire, and the eye does not see me.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man begets one hundred, and lives many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he has not had a grave, I have said, “Better than he [is] the untimely birth.”
Jeremiah 20:17Because he has not put me to death from the womb, || And my mother is to me—my grave, || And her womb [is] 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 →