Job 3:10

What does Job 3:10 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 3:10 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Because it shut not up the doors of mymother’swomb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Because it shut not up the doors of mymother’swomb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.

Context

v.9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

v.10This passage

v.11Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Samuel 1:5

    but unto Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Jehovah had shut up her womb.

  • Job 23:2

    Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.

  • Job 10:18

    Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

  • Ecclesiastes 11:10

    Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

  • Ecclesiastes 6:3

    If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

  • Jeremiah 20:17

    because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

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