Job 3:10
For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
Majority Standard Bible
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 did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
Cross References
Genesis 29:31When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
Job 6:2“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
Job 10:18Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
Ecclesiastes 6:3A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Jeremiah 20:17because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
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 →