Job 3:10
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, And hid not trouble from mine eyes.
Noyes 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 died I not at my birth? Why did I not expire when I came forth from the womb?
Cross References
Job 6:2O that my grief were weighed thoroughly! That my calamities were put together in the balance!
Job 10:18Why then didst thou bring me forth from the womb? I should have perished, and no eye had seen me;
Ecclesiastes 6:3Though a man have a hundred children, and live many years, and though the days of his years be many, if his soul be not satisfied with good, and he have no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better than he.
Jeremiah 20:17Because he slew me not before I saw the light, So that my mother might have been my grave, And her womb have been great with me forever!
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 →