God’s Word Translation
Job 3:10
10because it did not shut the doors of the womb ⌞from which I came⌟ or hide my eyes from trouble.
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 the day (those who know how to wake up Leviathan) curse that night. 9Let its stars turn dark before dawn. Let it hope for light and receive none. Let it not see the first light of dawn because it did not shut the doors of the womb ⌞from which I came⌟ or hide my eyes from trouble. 11“Why didn’t I die as soon as I was born and breathe my last breath when I came out of the womb? 12Why did knees welcome me? Why did breasts let me 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 take me out of the womb? I wish I had breathed my last breath before anyone had laid eyes on me.
- Genesis 20:18(The Lord had made it impossible for any woman in Abimelech’s household to have children because of Abraham’s wife Sarah.)
- Genesis 29:31When the Lord saw Leah was unloved, he made it possible for her to have children, but Rachel had none.
- 1 Samuel 1:5He would also give one portion to Hannah because he loved her, even though the Lord had kept her from having children.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3Suppose a rich person wasn’t satisfied with good things ⌞while he was alive⌟ and didn’t even get an honorable burial ⌞after he died⌟. Suppose he had a hundred children and lived for many years. No matter how long he would have lived, it ⌞still⌟ would have been better for him to have been born dead.
- Jeremiah 20:17If only he had killed me while I was in the womb. Then my mother would have been my grave, and she would have always been pregnant.
- Job 6:2“If only my grief could be weighed, if only my misery could be laid on the scales with it,
- Job 10:1“I hate my life. I will freely express my complaint. I will speak as bitterly as I feel.
- Job 23:2“My complaint is bitter again today. I try hard to control my sighing.
- Ecclesiastes 11:10Get rid of what troubles you or wears down your body, because childhood and youth are pointless.
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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