New International Version
Job 3:10
10for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to 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.
- 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.
- 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
8May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan. 9May its morning stars become dark; may it wait for daylight in vain and not see the first rays of dawn, for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes. 11“Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb? 12Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?
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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 then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me.
- Genesis 20:18for the Lord had kept all the women in Abimelek’s household from conceiving because of Abraham’s wife Sarah.
- Genesis 29:31When the Lord saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless.
- 1 Samuel 1:5But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, and the Lord had closed her womb.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
- Jeremiah 20:17For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever.
- Job 6:2“If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales!
- Job 10:1“I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 23:2“Even today my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
- Ecclesiastes 11:10So then, banish anxiety from your heart and cast off the troubles of your body, for youth and vigor are meaningless.
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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