Job 3:10

Because it shut not up the gates of my mother’s womb, 1 For so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

9Let the stars of that night be darkened; 1 Let it remain dark, and not come into light; 1 And let it not see the morning star arise: 1

11For why died I not in the belly? 1 And why did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately? 1

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Cross References

Genesis 29:31And when the Lord God saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

Job 6:2Oh that one would indeed weigh the wrath that is upon me, 1 And take up my griefs in a balance together! 1

Job 10:18Why then didst thou bring me out of the womb? 1 And why did I not die, and no eye see me, 1

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, 1 Yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, 1 Yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, 1 And also he have no burial; 1 I said, An untimely birth is better than he. 1

Jeremiah 20:17because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me.

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 →

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