Job 3:11
Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes.
12For what reason, were there prepared for me—knees? and why—breasts, that I might suck?
Cross References
Psalms 22:9For, thou, art he that severed me from the womb, he that caused me to trust, upon the breasts of my mother;
Psalms 71:6Upon thee, have I stayed myself from birth, Thou art he that severed me, from the body of my mother, Of thee, shall be my praise—continually.
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!
Isaiah 46:3Hearken unto me O house of Jacob, Even all the remnant of the house of Israel,—Who have been borne from birth, Who have been carried from nativity:
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 →