Job 3:11 “Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the wo…”

Job 3:11

Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

World English Bible

“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

American Standard Version

Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

Geneva Bible 1599

Why died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe?

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

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Cross references

“died I”

Psalm 58:8 Jeremiah 15:10 Hosea 9:14

Psalm 58:8 · BSB

Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

Jeremiah 15:10 · BSB

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

Hosea 9:14 · BSB

Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!

“when I came”

Isaiah 46:3 Psalm 71:6 Psalm 139:13–16 Psalm 22:9 Psalm 22:10

Isaiah 46:3 · BSB

“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.

Psalm 71:6 · BSB

I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.

Psalm 139:13–16 · BSB

For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Psalm 22:9 · BSB

Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.

Psalm 22:10 · BSB

From birth I was cast upon You; from my mother’s womb You have been my God.

Also

Job 10:18–19

Job 10:18–19 · BSB

Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.

12Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?

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