Job 3:11
Why do I not die from the womb? I have come forth from the belly and gasp!
Literal Standard Version
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 has not shut the doors || Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from my eyes.
12Why have knees been before me? And what [are] breasts, that I suck?
Cross References
Psalms 22:9For You [are] He bringing Me forth from the womb, || Causing Me to trust, || On the breasts of My mother.
Psalms 71:6I have been supported from the womb by You, || You cut me out from my mother’s bowels, || My praise [is] continually in You.
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.”
Isaiah 46:3“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, || And all the remnant of Israel, || Who are borne from the belly, || Who are carried from the womb,
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 →