Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe?
New American Standard Bible
Come forth from the womb and expire?
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?
Holman Bible
why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?
International Standard Version
Why didn't I die while I was still in the womb, or die while I was being born?
A Conservative Version
Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
American Standard Version
Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
Amplified
“Why did I not die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?
Bible in Basic English
Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?
Darby Translation
Wherefore did I not die from the womb, come forth from the belly and expire?
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore shall I not die from the womb? and I came forth from the belly, and I shall expire.
King James 2000
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire when I came out of the womb?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Why did I not die at birth? [Why] did I [not] come forth from [the] womb and expire?
Modern King James verseion
Why did I not die from the womb, come from the womb and expire?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Alas, why died I not in the birth? Why did not I perish, as soon as I came out of my mother's womb?
NET Bible
"Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
New Heart English Bible
"Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
Webster
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth?
World English Bible
"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
Youngs Literal Translation
Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!
Interlinear
Muwth
Gava`
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Wishes He Had Died
10 Because it closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes. 11 Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe? 12 For what reason, were there prepared for me - knees? and why - breasts, that I might suck?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 10:18-19
Wherefore then, from the womb, didst thou bring me forth? I might have breathed my last, and, no eye, have seen me.
Psalm 22:9-10
For, thou, art he that severed me from the womb, he that caused me to trust, upon the breasts of my mother;
Psalm 58:8
Like a snail, which melteth away as it goeth, An untimely birth of a woman, which hath not seen the sun:
Psalm 71:6
Upon thee, have I stayed myself from birth, Thou art he that severed me, from the body of my mother, Of thee, shall be my praise - continually.
Psalm 139:13-16
For, thou, didst possess thyself of my reins, thou didst weave me together in the womb of my mother.
Isaiah 46:3
Hearken unto me O house of Jacob, Even all the remnant of the house of Israel, - Who have been borne from birth, Who have been carried from nativity:
Jeremiah 15:10
Woe to me! my mother, That thou didst bear me, A man of litigation and a man of contention to all the land, - I have not lent on interest Nor have they lent on interest to me, Every one, hath treated me with contempt.
Hosea 9:14
Give them, O Yahweh - what wilt thou give? Give them, a miscarrying womb, and breasts dried up.