Cross References

Job 3:10

New English Translation

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

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For the Lord had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.

“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

“Even today my complaint is still bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.

“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?

Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,

Banish emotional stress from your mind. and put away pain from your body; for youth and the prime of life are fleeting.

For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.

But he would give a double portion to Hannah, because he especially loved her. Now the Lord had not enabled her to have children.