Job 3:11 · KJV
“Why died I not from the womb? {why} did I {not} give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?”
— Job 3:11
Because it shut not up the doors of my {mother's} womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
Job 3 — Context
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}
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?
13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Cross References
Isaiah 46:3
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne {by me} from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
Job 10:18-19
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
Psalms 22:9-10
But thou {art} he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope {when I was} upon my mother's breasts. {didst...: or, kept me in safety}
Hosea 9:14
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts. {miscarrying: Heb. that casteth the fruit}
Psalms 139:13-16
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
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.
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 neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; {yet} every one of them doth curse me.
Psalms 58:8
As a snail {which} melteth, let {every one of them} pass away: {like} the untimely birth of a woman, {that} they may not see the sun.