Job 3:11
“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
World English Bible Catholic
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 didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
Cross References
Psalms 22:9But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.
Psalms 71:6I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.
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;
Isaiah 46:3“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.
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 →