OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 10

Job 3:10

because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,

nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Job 3:10 in context

Job 3:7–13

Behold, let that night be barren.

Let no joyful voice come therein.

Let them curse it who curse the day,

who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

Let the stars of its twilight be dark.

Let it look for light, but have none,

neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

Selected verse

because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,

nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

“Why didn’t I die from the womb?

Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Why did the knees receive me?

Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

For now I should have lain down and been quiet.

I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

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