Job 3:10

Bible in Basic English 1965

Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

Cross References

Genesis 20:18

For the Lord had kept all the women of the house of Abimelech from having children, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

Genesis 29:31

Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children.

Job 10:1

My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.

Job 23:2

Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.

Job 3:11

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?

Job 3:9

Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

Jeremiah 20:17

Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.

1 Samuel 1:5

But to Hannah he gave one part, though Hannah was very dear to him, but the Lord had not let her have children.