New Living Translation
Job 3:10
10Curse that day for failing to shut my mother’s womb, for letting me be born to see all this 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 are experts at cursing— whose cursing could rouse Leviathan— curse that day. 9Let its morning stars remain dark. Let it hope for light, but in vain; may it never see the morning light. Curse that day for failing to shut my mother’s womb, for letting me be born to see all this trouble. 11“Why wasn’t I born dead? Why didn’t I die as I came from the womb? 12Why was I laid on my mother’s lap? Why did she nurse me at her breasts?
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כִּ֤י לֹ֣א סָ֭גַר דַּלְתֵ֣י בִטְנִ֑י וַיַּסְתֵּ֥ר עָ֝מָ֗ל מֵעֵינָֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 3:10
- Job 10:18“‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb? Why didn’t you let me die at birth?
- Genesis 20:18For the Lord had caused all the women to be infertile because of what happened with Abraham’s wife, Sarah.
- Genesis 29:31When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to have children, but Rachel could not conceive.
- 1 Samuel 1:5And though he loved Hannah, he would give her only one choice portion because the Lord had given her no children.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3A man might have a hundred children and live to be very old. But if he finds no satisfaction in life and doesn’t even get a decent burial, it would have been better for him to be born dead.
- Jeremiah 20:17because he did not kill me at birth. Oh, that I had died in my mother’s womb, that her body had been my grave!
- Job 6:2“If my misery could be weighed and my troubles be put on the scales,
- Job 10:1“I am disgusted with my life. Let me complain freely. My bitter soul must complain.
- Job 23:2“My complaint today is still a bitter one, and I try hard not to groan aloud.
- Ecclesiastes 11:10So refuse to worry, and keep your body healthy. But remember that youth, with a whole life before you, is 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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