Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb,
Or hide trouble from my eyes.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

For that night did not shut
the doors of my mother’s womb,
and hide sorrow from my eyes.

International Standard Version

"Because that night refused to shut the doors of my mother's womb; it failed to keep me from seeing this trouble.

A Conservative Version

Because it did not shut up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


Because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hide trouble from my eyes.

Bible in Basic English

Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

Darby Translation

Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.

Julia Smith Translation

Because it shut not up the doors of my belly; and shall it hide the labor of mine eyes?

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

because it did not shut the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

Modern King James verseion

For it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

because it shut not up the womb that bare me. For then should these sorrows have been hid from mine eyes.

NET Bible

because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!

New Heart English Bible

because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

The Emphasized Bible

Because it closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes.

Webster

Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.

World English Bible

because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

Youngs Literal Translation

Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Because it shut not up
סגר 
Cagar 
Usage: 93

the doors
דּלת 
Deleth 
Usage: 88

of my mother's womb
בּטן 
Beten 
Usage: 72

סתר 
Cathar 
Usage: 81

References

Fausets

Hastings

Job

Context Readings

Job Regrets His Birth

9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning, 10 Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb,
Or hide trouble from my eyes.
11 "Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?

Cross References

Genesis 20:18

For the LORD had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

Genesis 29:31

When the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

1 Samuel 1:5

But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the LORD had closed her womb.

Job 6:2-3

"Oh that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!

Job 10:1

"I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Job 10:18-19

"Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me

Job 23:2

"Today also my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning.

Ecclesiastes 6:3-5

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Jeremiah 20:17

because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.

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