Job 3:11
Madua (why) were there birkayim to receive me? 1 Or why the shadayim that from them I should nurse? 1
Orthodox Jewish 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
12For atah (now) I would be lying still and quiet, 1 have slept and been at rest, 1
Cross References
Psalms 22:9He trusted in Hashem; 1 let Hashem rescue him; let Him deliver him, since He delights in him. 1
Psalms 71:6By Thee have I been upheld from the beten (womb); 1 Thou art He that took me out of the womb of immi; 1 my tehillah (praise) shall be of Thee tamid (continually). 1
Ecclesiastes 6:3If an ish beget a hundredfold, and live shanim rabbot, so that rav be the yamim of his shanim, and his nefesh be not filled with hatovah, and also that he have no kevurah (grave); I say, that a nefel (stillborn) is better than he.
Isaiah 46:3Pay heed unto Me, O Bais Ya'akov, 1 and kol She'erit Bais Yisroel, 1 who are borne by Me from birth, 1 who are carried from the rechem (womb); 1
Jeremiah 20:17Because he slaughtered me not from the womb; 1 or that immi might have been my kever, 1 and olam (forever) her womb enlarged. 1
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 →