Job 3:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 20:18 : 18 For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children.
  • 1 Sam 1:5 : 5 But to Hannah he gave one part, though Hannah was very dear to him, but the Lord had not let her have children.
  • Job 6:2-3 : 2 If only my passion might be measured, and put into the scales against my trouble! 3 For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.
  • Job 10:1 : 1 My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
  • Job 10:18-19 : 18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me, 19 And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.
  • Job 23:2 : 2 Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.
  • Eccl 6:3-5 : 3 If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he. 4 In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered. 5 Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.
  • Eccl 11:10 : 10 So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.
  • Jer 20:17 : 17 Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.

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    11Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

    12Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?

    13For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.

    18Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

  • Job 10:18-20
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    18Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

    19And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

    20Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

  • Job 3:16
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    16Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

  • Job 3:9
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    9Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

  • Job 3:3-4
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    3Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.

    4That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

  • Job 23:17
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    17For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

  • Job 38:8
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    8Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;

  • Job 6:10
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    10So I would still have comfort, and I would have joy in the pains of death, for I have not been false to the words of the Holy One.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    72%

    9But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.

    10I was in your hands even before my birth; you are my God from the time when I was in my mother's body.

  • Jer 20:14
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    14A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.

  • Job 7:11
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    11So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

  • Job 31:15-16
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    15Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

    16If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

  • Job 3:23-24
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    72%

    23To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

    24In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

  • Job 31:18
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    18(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)

  • Job 14:13
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    13If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • Isa 21:3
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  • Hos 13:13
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    13The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.

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    3For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.

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    7He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

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    9He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.

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    16My face is red with weeping, and my eyes are becoming dark;

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    25Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?

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    10Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.

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    15Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

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    6You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.

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    13My flesh was made by you, and my parts joined together in my mother's body.

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    20Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

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    15My frame was not unseen by you when I was made secretly, and strangely formed in the lowest parts of the earth.

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    13If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

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    8My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

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    17Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

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    13I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

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