Cross References

Job 3:10

Young's Literal Translation 1862

Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.

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for Jehovah restraining had restrained every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

And Jehovah seeth that Leah `is' the hated one, and He openeth her womb, and Rachel `is' barren;

My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Also -- to-day `is' my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.

Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!

Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.

And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age `are' vanity!

Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.

and to Hannah he giveth a certain portion -- double, for he hath loved Hannah, and Jehovah hath shut her womb;