Job 3:11
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth?
Webster Bible
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 prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
12Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?
Cross References
Psalms 22:9But thou art he that brought me forth into life: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
Psalms 71:6By thee have I been sustained from my birth: thou art he that brought me into life: my praise shall be continually of thee.
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.
Isaiah 46:3Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the birth, which are carried from the womb:
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 →