Job 3:11
Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
Majority Standard Bible
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
10For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
12Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
Cross References
Psalms 22:9Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
Psalms 71:6I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.
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.
Isaiah 46:3“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.
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 →