Job 3:11

The Scriptures 1998

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

Cross References

Isaiah 46:3

“Listen to Me, O house of Yaʽ

Hosea 9:14

Give them, O יהוה  – give what? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and a man of contention to all the earth! I have neither lent for interest, nor have men lent to me for interest. All of them are reviling me.

Psalm 71:6

Upon You I have leaned from my birth; You took me out of my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of You.

Psalm 58:8

Like a snail which melts away as it moves, Like a woman’s stillbirth, Let them not see the sun!

Job 3:10

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

Job 3:12

Why were there knees to receive me? Or breasts for me to suck?

Ecclesiastes 4:2

Therefore I commended the dead who were already dead, more than the living who are still alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

And better than both is he who has never existed, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Jeremiah 20:17

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

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man brings forth a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his being is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a premature birth is better than he,

Ecclesiastes 6:5

even the sun it has not seen – it has more rest than that man.