Job 3:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not expire when I came out of the belly?

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  • 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.
  • Ps 22:9-9 : 9 But You are He who took me out of the womb; You made me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts. 10 I was cast upon You from the womb; You are my God from my mother’s belly.
  • Ps 58:8 : 8 As a snail that melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
  • Ps 71:6 : 6 By 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.
  • Ps 139:13-16 : 13 For You have formed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother's womb. 14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed; and in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.
  • Isa 46:3 : 3 Listen to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been carried by me from birth, who are carried from the womb:
  • Jer 15:10 : 10 Woe 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.
  • Hos 9:14 : 14 Give them, O LORD: what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 3:12-13
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    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,

  • 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,

  • Job 3:9-10
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    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn:

    10Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

  • 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?

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

  • Job 3:2-3
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    2And Job spoke, and said,

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

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

  • Job 31:14-16
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    74%

    14What then shall I do when God rises up? When He visits, what shall I answer Him?

    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;

  • Ps 22:9-10
    2 verses
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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.

  • 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.

  • Job 7:15-16
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    15so that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.

    16I loathe it; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are vanity.

  • 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!

  • 5Behold, I was shaped in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

  • Job 7:11-12
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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.

    12Am I a sea, or a monster, that you set a watch over me?

  • 21And when I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I had borne.

  • 1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

  • Isa 38:10-11
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    10I said in the prime of my days, I shall go to the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the rest of my years.

    11I said, I shall not see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall see man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

  • 21And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."

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

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

  • 3Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

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

  • 21And why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust, and you shall seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

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

  • 11What is my strength, that I should hope? And what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

  • 14Why do I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?

  • 5No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion upon you; but you were cast out into the open field, to the loathing of your person, on the day you were born.

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

  • 3If 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.

  • 23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

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

  • 12'Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother's womb.'

  • 22He said, While the child was alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell if God will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

  • 19And this woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it.

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

  • 47Remember how short my time is; why have you made all men in vain?

  • 29If I am wicked, why then do I labor in vain?