Job 3:11

World English Bible (2000)

"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

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Referenced Verses

  • 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.
  • Ps 22:9-9 : 9 But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts. 10 I was thrown on you from my mother's womb. You are my God since my mother bore me.
  • Ps 58:8 : 8 Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
  • Ps 71:6 : 6 I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.
  • Ps 139:13-16 : 13 For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. 15 My frame wasn't hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them.
  • Isa 46:3 : 3 "Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have been 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 not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me.
  • Hos 9:14 : 14 Give them--Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

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  • Job 10:18-20
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    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.

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  • Job 3:9-10
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    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

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    17because 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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    16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

  • Job 3:2-3
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    2Job answered:

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    14Cursed is the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

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

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  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts.

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    6I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.

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    15so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

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    13"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

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    21When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore."

  • Job 17:1
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    1"My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, And the grave is ready for me.

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    13For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.

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    21Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I shall not be."

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