Job 3:10

KJV1611 – Modern English

Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

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  • Gen 20:18 : 18 For the LORD had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 And when the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
  • 1 Sam 1:5 : 5 But to Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but the LORD had closed her womb.
  • Job 6:2-3 : 2 Oh, that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! 3 For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words are swallowed up.
  • Job 10:1 : 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
  • Job 10:18-19 : 18 Why then have You brought me forth out of the womb? Oh, that 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 today my complaint is bitter; my suffering is heavier than my groaning.
  • Eccl 6:3-5 : 3 If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, yet his soul is not filled with good, and indeed he has no burial; I say, that a premature birth is better than he. 4 For it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness. 5 Moreover, it has not seen the sun nor known anything: this has more rest than the other.
  • Eccl 11:10 : 10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh, for childhood and youth are vanity.
  • Jer 20:17 : 17 Because he did not slay me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always great with me.

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  • Job 3:11-13
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    11Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not expire when I came out of the belly?

    12Why were there knees to receive me? Or why breasts that I should nurse?

    13For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have slept: then I would have been at rest,

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17Because he did not slay me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always great with me.

    18Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

  • Job 10:18-20
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    18Why then have You brought me forth out of the womb? Oh, that 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,

  • 16Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have existed; like infants who never saw light.

  • 9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn:

  • Job 3:3-4
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    3Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived.

    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

  • 17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • 8Or who closed up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?

  • 10Then I should still have comfort; yes, I would harden myself in sorrow. Let him not spare, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9But You are He who took me out of the womb; You made me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.

    10I was cast upon You from the womb; You are my God from my mother’s belly.

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

  • 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.

  • Job 31:15-16
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    15Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

    16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

  • Job 3:23-24
    2 verses
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    23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

    24For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.

  • 18(For from my youth he was raised with me as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

  • 13Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • 3Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I was bent over when I heard it; I was dismayed when I saw it.

  • 13The sorrows of a laboring woman shall come upon him: he is an unwise son; for he should not stay long in the place of the breaking forth of children.

  • 3For I was my father's son, tender and dearly loved in the sight of my mother.

  • Lam 3:6-9
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    6He has set me in dark places, like those long dead.

    7He has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.

    8Even when I cry and shout, He shuts out my prayer.

    9He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

  • 16My face is flushed with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

  • 25Did I not weep for those in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

  • 10Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on interest, nor men have lent to me on interest; yet every one of them curses me.

  • 15And where now is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

  • 6By you have I been upheld from birth; you are he who took me out of my mother's womb; my praise shall be continually of you.

  • 13For You have formed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother's womb.

  • 20Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

  • 15My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth.

  • 3The sorrows of death surrounded me, and the pains of hell took hold of me: I found trouble and sorrow.

  • 13If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.

  • 8He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

  • 17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the doors of the shadow of death?

  • 1Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.

  • 16For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

  • 13Is not my help within me? And is wisdom driven quite from me?

  • 27My insides boiled and did not rest: the days of affliction confronted me.

  • 18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint within me.

  • 3And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?