Job 3:11
Why died I not at my birth? Why did I not expire when I came forth from the womb?
Noyes 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
10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, And hid not trouble from mine eyes.
12Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I might suck?
Cross References
Psalms 22:9Surely thou art he that didst bring me into the world; Thou didst make me lie secure upon my mother's breast!
Psalms 71:6Upon thee have I leaned from my birth; From my earliest breath thou hast been my support; My song hath been continually of thee!
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.
Isaiah 46:3Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel; Ye that have been borne by me from your birth, That have been carried by me from your earliest breath!
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 →