Christian Standard Bible
Job 3:10
10For that night did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, and hide sorrow from my 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 those who curse days condemn it, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan. 9May its morning stars grow dark. May it wait for daylight but have none; may it not see the breaking of dawn. For that night did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, and hide sorrow from my eyes. 11Why was I not stillborn; why didn’t I die as I came from the womb? 12Why did the knees receive me, and why were there breasts for me to nurse?
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כִּ֤י לֹ֣א סָ֭גַר דַּלְתֵ֣י בִטְנִ֑י וַיַּסְתֵּ֥ר עָ֝מָ֗ל מֵעֵינָֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 3:10
- Job 10:18“Why did you bring me out of the womb? I should have died and never been seen.
- Genesis 20:18for the Lord had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household on account of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
- Genesis 29:31When the Lord saw that Leah was neglected, he opened her womb; but Rachel was unable to conceive.
- 1 Samuel 1:5But he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved her even though the Lord had kept her from conceiving.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
- Jeremiah 20:17because he didn’t kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, her womb eternally pregnant.
- Job 6:2If only my grief could be weighed and my devastation placed with it on the scales.
- Job 10:1I am disgusted with my life. I will give vent to my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 23:2Today also my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
- Ecclesiastes 11:10Remove sorrow from your heart, and put away pain from your flesh, because youth and the prime of life are fleeting.
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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