Job 3:10

The Scriptures 1998

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

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because I was not slain from the womb, so that my mother should have been my grave and her womb forever great.

Therefore remove vexation from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh, for youth and dawn of life are futility.

“Even today my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning.

“My being has grown weary of life. I let loose my complaint, I speak in the bitterness of my being.

but, although he loved Ḥ

And יהוה saw that Lĕ

for יהוה had closed up all the wombs of the house of Aḇ

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it wait for light, but have none. And let it not see the eyelashes of the dawn.

Why did I not die from the womb, come forth from the belly and expire?