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Job 3:10

Modern English Version

because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

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For the Lord had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

“My soul loathes my life; I will freely give my complaint, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

“Today also my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy because of my groaning.

“Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not expire when I came out of the womb?

Let its morning stars be dark; let it look for light, but have none; let it not see the rays of dawn,

Remove anxiety from your heart, and put away distress from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

because he did not kill me from the womb, so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb be always pregnant.

But to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved Hannah, but the Lord had closed her womb.