Job 3:10
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
- KJV
- Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
- WEB
- because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
- ASV
- Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother`s] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
- DARBY
- Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
- BLB
- for it did not shut the doors of my womb, and hide trouble from my eyes.
- ÅB
- fordi den ikke stengte døren til min mors liv og skjulte strev for mine øyne.
- OTB
- fordi den ikke lukket dørene til min mors liv,
eller holdt trøbbel borte fra mine øyne. - B1930
- fordi den ikke stengte døren til min mors liv og skjulte møie for mine øine.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ecclesiastes 6:3–5
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Read in contextGenesis 20:18
For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
Read in contextJeremiah 20:17
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
Read in context1 Samuel 1:5
But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.
Read in contextGenesis 29:31
And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 11:10
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
Read in contextJob 6:2–3
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
Read in contextJob 23:2
Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
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