New American Standard Bible 1995
Job 3:10
10Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb, Or 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.
- 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 curse it who curse the day, Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan. 9Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; Let it wait for light but have none, And let it not see the breaking dawn; Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb, Or hide trouble from my eyes. 11“Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire? 12Why did the knees receive me, And 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 10:18‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!
- Genesis 20:18For the Lord had closed fast all the wombs of the household of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
- Genesis 29:31Now the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
- 1 Samuel 1:5but to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but the Lord had closed her womb.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,
- Jeremiah 20:17Because he did not kill me before birth, So that my mother would have been my grave, And her womb ever pregnant.
- Job 6:2“Oh that my grief were actually weighed And laid in the balances together with my calamity!
- Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 23:2“Even today my complaint is rebellion; His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
- Ecclesiastes 11:10So, remove grief and anger from your heart and put away pain from your body, because childhood 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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