Job 3:11
What does Job 3:11 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 3:11 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Why 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 · 1901Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Wherefore did I not die from the womb, — come forth from the belly and expire?
Context
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.
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