Job 3:11
9 May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
10 For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
12 Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
13 For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
- KJV
- Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
- WEB
- “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
- ASV
- Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
- DARBY
- Wherefore did I not die from the womb, come forth from the belly and expire?
- BLB
- Why did I not die from the womb? I should have come forth from the belly and expired!
- ÅB
- Hvorfor døde jeg ikke i mors liv? Hvorfor utåndet jeg ikke straks i fødselsstunden?
- OTB
- “Hvorfor omkom jeg ikke ved fødselen,
kom ut av livmoren og utåndet? - B1930
- Hvorfor døde jeg ikke i mors liv? Hvorfor utåndet jeg ikke straks i fødselsstunden?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 46:3
“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.
Read in contextJob 10:18–19
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
Read in contextHosea 9:14
Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
Read in contextJeremiah 15:10
Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
Read in contextPsalms 139:13–16
For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Read in contextPsalms 58:8
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
Read in contextPsalms 71:6
I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.
Read in contextPsalms 22:9–10
Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
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