Job 3:11

Job chapter 3 · verse 11 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.10Because it shut not up the doors of mymother’swomb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

v.11This passage

v.12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?

Cross references

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

  • Isaiah 46:3

    Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borneby mefrom their birth, that have been carried from the womb;

  • Jeremiah 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 not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them doth curse me.

  • Psalms 58:8

    Let them beas a snail which melteth and passeth away, Likethe untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

  • 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.

  • Psalms 22:9

    But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust when I was upon my mother’s breasts.

  • Psalms 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.