Job 3:11
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:
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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?
13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been 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
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
Read in contextJob 10:18–19
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
Read in contextHosea 9:14
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Read in contextJeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Read in contextPsalms 139:13–16
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
Read in contextPsalms 58:8
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Read in contextPsalms 71:6
By 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.
Read in contextPsalms 22:9–10
But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
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