Job 3:11

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 3:11 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 10:18Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
  2. Psalms 22:9Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
  3. Psalms 58:8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
  4. Psalms 71:6I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.
  5. Psalms 139:13For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
  6. 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.
  7. Ecclesiastes 6:5The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Hosea 9:14Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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