Job 3:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.”
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“For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Because it shut not up the doors of mymother’swomb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 3:10 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 20:18for on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household.
- Genesis 29:31When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
- 1 Samuel 1:5But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.
- Job 6:2“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
- Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
- Job 10:18Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
- Job 23:2“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
- Ecclesiastes 11:10So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.
- Jeremiah 20:17because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
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