Job 3:10

World English Bible (2000)

because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 20:18 : 18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
  • Gen 29:31 : 31 Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and 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 Yahweh had shut up her womb.
  • Job 6:2-3 : 2 "Oh that my anguish were 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 "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, 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 rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
  • Eccl 6:3-5 : 3 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child 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 it. This has rest rather than the other.
  • Eccl 11:10 : 10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
  • Jer 20:17 : 17 because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

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