Job 3:10

Job chapter 3 · verse 10 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

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

King James Version · 1611

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

American Standard Version · 1901

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

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?

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.