Job 3:10 · KJV
“Because it shut not up the doors of my {mother's} womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.”
— Job 3:10
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but {have} none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: {the dawning...: Heb. the eyelids of the morning}
Why died I not from the womb? {why} did I {not} give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Job 3 — Context
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. {their...: or, leviathan}
9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but {have} none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: {the dawning...: Heb. the eyelids of the morning}
10Because it shut not up the doors of my {mother's} womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11Why died I not from the womb? {why} did I {not} give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
If a man beget an hundred {children}, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also {that} he have no burial; I say, {that} an untimely birth {is} better than he.
Genesis 20:18
For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
Jeremiah 20:17
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb {to be} always great {with me}.
Job 6:2-3
Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! {laid: Heb. lifted up}
Job 10:1
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. {weary...: or, cut off while I live}
Genesis 29:31
And when the LORD saw that Leah {was} hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel {was} barren.
1 Samuel 1:5
But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb. {worthy: or, double}
Ecclesiastes 11:10
Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth {are} vanity. {sorrow: or, anger}