Job 3:11
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 3 connects to 10 cross-references. Job breaks his silence with a lament cursing the day of his birth and the night of his conception. He questions why light is given to those in misery and longs for the peace of Sheol where the weary are …
Other Translations
Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!
Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?
Cross References
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and …
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the …
But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon …
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that …
By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s …
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in …
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by …
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to …