KJV King James Version
Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Job 3:11
Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
WEB World English Bible
“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
ASV American Standard Version
Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!
Surrounding context — Job 3
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother’s] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11 Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14 With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
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Isaiah 46:3Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne [by me] from the belly, which are carried from the womb:Job 10:18-19Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!Psalm 58:8As a snail [which] melteth, let [every one of them] pass away: [like] the untimely birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the sun.Hosea 9:14Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.Psalm 71:6By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise [shall be] continually of thee.Jeremiah 15:10Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; [yet] every one of them doth curse me.Psalm 22:9-10But thou [art] he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope [when I was] upon my mother’s breasts.Psalm 139:13-16For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
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