English Standard Version
Job 3:10
10because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Curse that day for failing to shut my mother’s womb, for letting me be born to see all this trouble.
Context of Job 3:10
8Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan. 9Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning, because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes. 11"Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire? 12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should 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 from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
- Genesis 20:18For the Lord had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
- Genesis 29:31When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
- 1 Samuel 1:5But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
- Jeremiah 20:17because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.
- Job 6:2"Oh that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
- Job 10:1"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 23:2"Today also my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning.
- Ecclesiastes 11:10Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, 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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