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 · 2000Because it shut not up the doors of mymother’swomb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Because it shut not up the doors of mymother’swomb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Because 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 · 1862Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
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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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