Job 3:10
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
King James Version
In Context
11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Cross References
Genesis 29:31And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
Job 6:2O that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Job 10:18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Jeremiah 20:17Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
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 →