Job 3:10
Because it closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
11Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe?
Cross References
Genesis 29:31And, when Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, he granted her to bear children,—whereas, Rachel, was barren.
Job 6:2Oh that, weighed, were my vexation, and, my engulfing ruin—into the balances, they would lift up all at once!
Job 10:18Wherefore then, from the womb, didst thou bring me forth? I might have breathed my last, and, no eye, have seen me.
Ecclesiastes 6:3Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth!
Jeremiah 20:17Because I was not slain from the womb,—Nor did my mother become my grave, Nor was her womb great for ever!
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 →