Job 3:10

American Standard Version (1901)

Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 20:18 : 18 For Jehovah had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
  • 1 Sam 1:5 : 5 but unto Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Jehovah had shut up her womb.
  • Job 6:2-3 : 2 Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas: Therefore have my words been rash.
  • Job 10:1 : 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 10:18-19 : 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me. 19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
  • Job 23:2 : 2 Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.
  • Eccl 6:3-5 : 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: 4 for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness; 5 moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:
  • Eccl 11:10 : 10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
  • Jer 20:17 : 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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    11Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

    12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

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  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17because 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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  • Job 10:18-20
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    18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.

    19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

    20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Job 3:16
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    16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

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    9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:

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    3Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

    4Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

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    17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

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    8Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb;

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    10And be it still my consolation, Yea, let me exult in pain that spareth not, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9But thou art he that took me out of the womb; Thou didst make me trust [when I was] upon my mother's breasts.

    10I was cast upon thee from the womb; Thou art my God since my mother bare me.

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    14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

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    11Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

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    15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

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  • Job 3:23-24
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    23[ Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?

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    13Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

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    3Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I cannot hear; I am dismayed so that I cannot see.

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    13The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for it is time he should not tarry in the place of the breaking forth of children.

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    3For I was a son unto my father, Tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

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    9He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

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    16My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

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    25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

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    15Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

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    6By 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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    13For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.

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    20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;

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    15My frame was not hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, [And] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

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    3The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

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    13If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;

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    8He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

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    27My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are come upon me.

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    3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?