Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes
Job 3:11 - Revised Version 1885 Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost When I came out of the belly? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Why was I not stillborn? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bore me? American Standard Version (1901) Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me? Common English Bible Why didn’t I die at birth, come forth from the womb and die? Catholic Public Domain Version Why did I not die in the womb? Having left the womb, why did I not immediately perish? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Why did I not die in the womb? Why did I not perish when I came out of the belly? |
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts, that I should suck?
Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away: Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
By thee have I been holden up from the womb: Thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: My praise shall be continually of thee.
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive;
yea, better than them both did I esteem him which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
If a man beget an hundred children and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which have been borne by me from the belly, which have been carried from the womb:
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent on usury, neither have men lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother should have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.