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Job 3:10
Job 3:10 is verse 10 of Job chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
King James Version
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
World English Bible
because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
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Job 3:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible
8 May it be cursed by those who curse the day — those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
9 May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
10 For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
11 Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
12 Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 10:18Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
Job 10:19If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
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.
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 6:4For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.
Ecclesiastes 6:5The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,
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.
Job 6:2“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
Job 6:3For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas— no wonder my words have been rash.
Job 10:1“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 23:2“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
Ecclesiastes 11:10So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.