Job 3:10

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Summary

Job 3:10

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

It shut not

Hid

Bible References

It shut not

‘Why then did You bring me out of the womb?
Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me!

for the Lord had securely closed the wombs of all [the women] in Abimelech’s household because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Now when the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He made her able to bear children, but Rachel was barren.

But to Hannah he would give a double portion, because he loved Hannah, but the Lord had given her no children.

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he is not respected and is not given a proper burial [he is not laid to rest in the sepulcher of his fathers], then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,

Because he did not kill me before my birth,
So that my mother might have been my grave,
And her womb always pregnant.

Hid

“Oh, that my grief could actually be weighed
And placed in the balances together with my tragedy [to see if my grief is the grief of a coward]!

“I am disgusted with my life and loathe it!
I will give free expression to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

“Even today my complaint is contentious;
His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

Therefore, remove sorrow and anger from your heart and put away pain from your body, for childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.