New King James Version
Job 3:10
10Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, Nor 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 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 curse it who curse the day, Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan. 9May the stars of its morning be dark; May it look for light, but have none, And not see the dawning of the day; Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, Nor hide sorrow from my eyes. 11“Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not perish when I came from the womb? 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 then have You brought me out of the womb? Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
- Genesis 20:18for the Lord had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
- Genesis 29:31When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
- 1 Samuel 1:5But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, although the Lord had closed her womb.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he—
- Jeremiah 20:17Because he did not kill me from the womb, That my mother might have been my grave, And her womb always enlarged with me.
- Job 6:2“Oh, that my grief were fully weighed, And my calamity laid with it on the scales!
- Job 10:1“My soul loathes my life; I will give free course to my complaint, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 23:2“Even today my complaint is bitter; My hand is listless because of my groaning.
- Ecclesiastes 11:10Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, And put away evil from your flesh, For childhood and youth 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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