Job 3:11

Why 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

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

12Why did her knees welcome me? 1 Why did her breasts receive me so that I should suck? 1

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Cross References

Psalms 22:9For you brought me from the womb; 1 you made me trust you when I was on my mother's breasts. 1

Psalms 71:6By you I have been supported from the womb; 1 you are he who took me out of my mother's belly; 1 my praise will be always about you. 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.

Isaiah 46:3Listen to me, house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, 1 who have been carried by me from before your birth, carried from the womb. 1

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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