Job 3:11
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Revised Version 1895
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 shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
12Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts, that I should suck?
Cross References
Psalms 22:9But thou art he that took me out the womb: thou didst make me trust when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
Psalms 71:6By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget an hundred children and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
Isaiah 46:3Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which have been borne by me from the belly, which have been carried from the womb:
Jeremiah 20:17because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother should 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 →