Job 3:10

A Conservative Version

Because it did not shut up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

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because he did not kill me from the womb, and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Even today my complaint is rebellious. My stroke is heavier than my groaning.

My soul is weary of my life. I will give free reign to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

but to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but LORD had shut up her womb.

And LORD saw that Leah was regarded inferior, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

For LORD had closed up fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, nor let it behold the eyelids of the morning.

Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?