Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Why did I not die at birth? [Why] did I [not] come forth from [the] womb and expire?
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?
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?
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe?
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 did not shut the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. 11 "Why did I not die at birth? [Why] did I [not] come forth from [the] womb and expire? 12 Why did [the] knees receive me and the breasts, that I could suck?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 10:18-19
So why did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have passed away, {and no eye should have seen me}.
Psalm 22:9-10
Yet [you] took me from [the] belly; you made me trust [while] on my mother's breasts.
Psalm 58:8
[Let them be] like a snail [that] melts away [as] it goes; [like the] stillborn of woman [that] do not see [the] sun.
Psalm 71:6
Upon you I have leaned {from birth}. [It was] you who {took} me from the womb of my mother. My praise [is] of you continually.
Psalm 139:13-16
Indeed you created my {inward parts}; you wove me in my mother's womb.
Isaiah 46:3
"Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel who have been carried from [the] belly, who have been carried from [the] womb:
Jeremiah 15:10
Woe to me, my mother, that you gave birth to me, a man of contention and quarreling {to the whole land}. I have not lent out and {I have not borrowed}. All of them [are] cursing me.
Hosea 9:14
Give them, Yahweh-- what will you give [them]? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.