Job 3:10
because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
World English Bible Catholic
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
11“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
Cross References
Genesis 29:31The LORD saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Job 6:2“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
Job 10:18“‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he;
Jeremiah 20:17because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
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 →