Job Laments His Birth
Job 3:11
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
- KJV
- Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
- WEB
- “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
- ASV
- Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
- LSV
- Why do I not die from the womb? I have come forth from the belly and gasp!
- YLT
- Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!
- DBY
- Wherefore did I not die from the womb, — come forth from the belly and expire?
- DRC
- Why did I not die in the womb, why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?
- GNV
- Why died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe?
- JPS
- Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not perish at birth?
- LXXE
- For why died I not in the belly? and why did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately?
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- לָ֤מָּה לֹּ֣א מֵרֶ֣חֶם אָמ֑וּת מִבֶּ֖טֶן יָצָ֣אתִי וְאֶגְוָֽע׃
- LXX-Br
- Διατί γὰρ ἐν κοιλίᾳ οὐκ ἐτελεύτησα; ἐκ γαστρὸς δὲ ἐξῆλθον, καὶ οὐκ εὐθὺς ἀπωλόμην;
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Cross-references most cited first
- 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.
- Job 10:18–19Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me! If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Hosea 9:14Give them, O LORD— what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that dry up!
- Psalms 58:8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
- Psalms 22:9–10Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast. From birth I was cast upon You; from my mother’s womb You have been my God.
- Psalms 139:13–16For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Your works, and I know this very well. My frame was not hidden from You…
- 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.
- Psalms 71:6I have leaned on You since birth; You pulled me from my mother’s womb. My praise is always for You.
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