Job 3:10

because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, 1 and because it did not hide trouble from my eyes. 1

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Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

In Context

9May the stars of that day's dawn be dark. 1 May that day look for light, but find none; 1 neither may it see the eyelids of the dawn, 1

11Why did I not die when I came out from the womb? 1 Why did I not give up my spirit when my mother bore me? 1

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Cross References

Genesis 29:31Yahweh saw that Leah was not loved, so he opened her womb, but Rachel was childless.

Job 6:2“Oh, if only my anguish were weighed; 1 if only all my calamity were laid in the balance! 1

Job 10:18Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? 1 I wish I had given up my spirit and that no eye had ever seen me. 1

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but if his heart is not satisfied with good and he is not buried, then I say that a baby that is born dead is better off than he is.

Jeremiah 20:17because he did not kill me in the womb, making my mother to be my tomb, 1 a womb that was pregnant forever. 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 →

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