Job 3:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י לֹ֣א סָ֭גַר דַּלְתֵ֣י בִטְנִ֑י וַיַּסְתֵּ֥ר עָ֝מָ֗ל מֵעֵינָֽי׃

Transliteration

kî lōʾ sāgar daltê biṭnî wayyastēr ʿāmāl mēʿênāy

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - because
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*sāgar*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - it shut up
*daltê*: noun, feminine plural construct - doors of
*biṭnî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st common singular suffix - my womb
*wayyastēr*: conjunction + verb, Hiphil imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine singular - and hide
*ʿāmāl*: noun, masculine singular - trouble
*mēʿênāy*: preposition + noun, feminine dual with 1st common singular suffix - from my eyes

Word Meanings

*sāgar*: shut up/closed/bolted
*daltê*: doors/gates
*biṭnî*: my womb/my belly/my body
*wayyastēr*: and hide/and conceal
*ʿāmāl*: trouble/misery/toil/sorrow

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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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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