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Job 3:11
Job 3:11 is verse 11 of Job chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
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?
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Job 3:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible
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?
13 For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Psalms 58:8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
Jeremiah 15:10Woe 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 9:14Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
Psalms 22:9Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
Psalms 22:10From birth I was cast upon You; from my mother’s womb You have been my God.
Psalms 71:6I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.
Psalms 139:13For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Psalms 139:14I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well.
Psalms 139:15My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Psalms 139:16Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.
Isaiah 46:3“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.