Job 3:11
Verse 11 of 26. The 3rd of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.
7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Job 3:11 in the World English Bible
“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?Read Job 3:11 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Job 3:11
He ungratefully quarrels with life, and is angry that it was not taken from him as soon as it was given him (v. 11, 12): Why died not I from the womb? See here, 1. What a weak and helpless creature man is when he comes into the world, and how slender the thread of life is when it is first drawn.
Read Matthew Henry on Job 3:11–19: Job's Complaint of Life. (b. c. 1520.)
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