Job 3:11

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • Ps 22:9-9 : 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. 10 I was cast upon thee from the womb; Thou art my God since my mother bare me.
  • Ps 58:8 : 8 [ Let them be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away, [Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
  • Ps 71:6 : 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.
  • Ps 139:13-16 : 13 For thou didst form my inward parts: Thou didst cover me in my mother's womb. 14 I will give thanks unto thee; For I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Wonderful are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well. 15 My frame was not hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, [And] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, [Even] the days that were ordained [for me], When as yet there was none of them.
  • Isa 46:3 : 3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have been carried from the womb;
  • Jer 15:10 : 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.
  • Hos 9:14 : 14 Give them, O Jehovah--what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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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 3:9-10
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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:

    10Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

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

  • Job 3:2-3
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    2And Job answered and said:

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  • Jer 20:14
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    14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

  • Job 31:14-16
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    74%

    14What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

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  • Ps 22:9-10
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    74%

    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.

  • Ps 71:6
    71%

    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.

  • Job 7:15-16
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    71%

    15So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than [these] my bones.

    16I loathe [my life] ; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

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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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    5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

  • Job 7:11-12
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    70%

    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.

    12Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?

  • 1 Kgs 3:21
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    21And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I did bear.

  • Job 17:1
    70%

    1My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct, The grave is [ready] for me.

  • Isa 38:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

    11I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

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    21and he said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah.

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

  • Ps 139:15
    69%

    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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    3Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

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    69%

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

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    69%

    21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

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    69%

    1Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

  • Job 6:11
    69%

    11What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is mine end, that I should be patient?

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    69%

    14Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?

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    5No eye pitied thee, to do any of these things unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, for that thy person was abhorred, in the day that thou wast born.

  • Job 31:18
    68%

    18(Nay, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, And her have I guided from my mother's womb);

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    3If 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:

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    68%

    23[ Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?

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

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    12Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother's womb.

  • 2 Sam 12:22
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    22And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who knoweth whether Jehovah will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?

  • 1 Kgs 3:19
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    19And this woman's child died in the night, because she lay upon it.

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    47Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

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    29I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?