American Standard Version
Job 3:10
10Because it shut not up the doors of mymother’swomb,Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
Job 3:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
- New International Version (NIV)for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.
- English Standard Version (ESV)because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.
Context of Job 3:10
8Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan. 9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning: Because it shut not up the doors of mymother’swomb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes. 11Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me? 12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
Read all of Job 3Job 3:10 word by word
כִּ֤י לֹ֣א סָ֭גַר דַּלְתֵ֣י בִטְנִ֑י וַיַּסְתֵּ֥ר עָ֝מָ֗ל מֵעֵינָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 3:10
- Job 10:18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
- Genesis 20:18For Jehovah had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
- Genesis 29:31And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
- 1 Samuel 1:5but unto Hannah he gave a double portion; for he loved Hannah, but Jehovah had shut up her womb.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
- Jeremiah 20:17because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
- Job 6:2Oh that my vexation were but weighed, And all my calamity laid in the balances!
- Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 23:2Even to-day is my complaint rebellious: My stroke is heavier than my groaning.
- Ecclesiastes 11:10Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Commentaries on Job 3:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Because it shut not up the doors - Here is the reason why he curses the day and the night in which he was conceived and born; because, had he never been brought into existence, he would never have seen trouble. It seems, however, very harsh that he should have wished the destruction of his mother, in order that his birth might have been prevented; and I rather think Job's execration did not extend thus far. The Targum understands the passage as speaking…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Because it shut not up - That is, because the accursed day and night did not do it. Aben Ezra supposes that God is meant here, and that the complaint of Job is that he did not close his mother‘s womb. But the more natural interpretation is to refer it to the ́ Nuchthēmeroi - the night and the day which he had been cursing, on which he was born. Throughout the description the day and the night are personified, and are spoken of as active in introducing…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10shut the doors of the womb: Closing or opening the womb can mean conception (Genesis 16:2; 20:18; 29:31; 30:22; 1 Samuel 1:5–6). But here it means birth (see also Job 38:8).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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