Job 3:10
because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!
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Referenced Verses
- Gen 20:18 : 18 For the LORD had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
- Gen 29:31 : 31 The Family of Jacob When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.
- 1 Sam 1:5 : 5 But to Hannah he would give a double portion, because he loved Hannah, although the LORD had not enabled her to have children.
- Job 6:2-3 : 2 “Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too! 3 But because it is heavier than the sand of the sea, that is why my words have been wild.
- Job 10:1 : 1 An Appeal for Revelation“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 10:18-19 : 18 An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me! 19 I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!
- Job 23:2 : 2 “Even today my complaint is still bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.
- Eccl 6:3-5 : 3 Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years– even if he lives a long, long time, but cannot enjoy his prosperity– even if he were to live forever– I would say,“A stillborn child is better off than he is!” 4 Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness, 5 though it never saw the light of day nor knew anything, yet it has more rest than that man–
- Eccl 11:10 : 10 Banish emotional stress from your mind. and put away pain from your body; for youth and the prime of life are fleeting.
- Jer 20:17 : 17 For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.
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- Job 3:11-133 verses88%
11Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
12Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
13For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
- Jer 20:17-182 verses84%
17For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.
18Why did I ever come forth from my mother’s womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.
- Job 10:18-203 verses83%
18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!
19I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!
20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
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16Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?
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9Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,
- Job 3:3-42 verses77%
3“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said,‘A man has been conceived!’
4That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!
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17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.
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8“Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,
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10Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
- Ps 22:9-102 verses72%
9Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother’s breasts.
10I have been dependent on you since birth; from the time I came out of my mother’s womb you have been my God.
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14Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.
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11Job Remonstrates with God“Therefore, 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 31:15-162 verses72%
15Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?
16If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
- Job 3:23-242 verses72%
23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
24For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
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18but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!
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13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
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3For this reason my stomach churns; cramps overwhelm me like the contractions of a woman in labor. I am disturbed by what I hear, horrified by what I see.
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13The labor pains of a woman will overtake him, but the baby will lack wisdom; when the time arrives, he will not come out of the womb!
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3When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,
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6He has made me reside in deepest darkness like those who died long ago.
7ג(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.
8Also, when I cry out desperately for help, he has shut out my prayer.
9He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.
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16my face is reddened because of weeping, and on my eyelids there is a deep darkness,
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25Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
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10Jeremiah Complains about His Lot and The Lord Responds I said,“Oh, mother, how I regret that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt.”
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15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?
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6I have leaned on you since birth; you pulled me from my mother’s womb. I praise you continually.
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13Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb.
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20Longing for Death“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,
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15my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.
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3The ropes of death tightened around me, the snares of Sheol confronted me. I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.
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13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
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8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.
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17Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of deepest darkness?
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1The Brevity of Life“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.
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16ע(Ayin) I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one in sight who can comfort me or encourage me. My children are desolated because an enemy has prevailed.
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13Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?
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27My heart is in turmoil unceasingly; the days of my affliction confront me.
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18Then I said,“There is no cure for my grief! I am sick at heart!
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3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?