Job 3:10
Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
Webster Bible
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 from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth?
Cross References
Genesis 29:31And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he made her fruitful: but Rachel was barren.
Job 6:2Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Job 10:18Why then hast thou brought me forth from the womb? O that I had expired, and no eye had seen me!
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man begetteth a hundred children , and liveth many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he hath no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Jeremiah 20:17Because he slew me not at my birth; or that my mother might have been my grave, and she had not been delivered.
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 →