Job 3:11 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹¹ Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost When I came out of the belly?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ Why was I not stillborn? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bore me?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

Common English Bible

¹¹ Why didn’t I die at birth, come forth from the womb and die?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Why did I not die in the womb? Having left the womb, why did I not immediately perish?

Job 3:11 Cross References

Job 3:10

because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

Job 3:12

Why did the knees prevent me? Or why the breasts that I should suck?

Psalm 58:8

As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

Psalm 71:6

By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more than the living which are yet alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

Isaiah 46:3

Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

Jeremiah 20:17

because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

Hosea 9:14

Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.