Job 3:11

American Standard Version

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

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Job 3:11 in other translations

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

Job 3:11 · World English Bible

Job 3:11 in context

  1. 9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning:
  2. 10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
  3. 11Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
  4. 12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
  5. 13For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,