Job 3:10
Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes.
Geneva Bible 1599
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
11Why died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe?
Cross References
Genesis 29:31When the Lord saw that Leah was despised, he made her fruitful: but Rahel was barren.
Job 6:2Oh that my griefe were well weighed, and my miseries were layed together in the balance.
Job 10:18Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget an hundreth children and liue many yeeres, and the dayes of his yeeres be multiplied, and his soule be not satisfied with good things, and he be not buried, I say that an vntimely fruite is better then he.
Jeremiah 20:17Because he hath not slaine me, euen from the wombe, or that my mother might haue bene my graue, or her wobe a perpetual conception.
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 →