Job 3:11

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

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

12And why did the knees support me? 1 And why did I suck the breasts? 1

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Cross References

Psalms 71:6He shall come down as rain upon a fleece; 1 And as drops falling upon the earth. 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

Isaiah 46:3Hear me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of Israel, who are borne by me from the womb, and taught by me from infancy, even to old age:

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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