Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.
New American Standard Bible
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
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.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Regrets His Birth
9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn. 10 Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes. 11 Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!
Names
Cross References
Genesis 20:18
for Jehovah restraining had restrained every womb of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Genesis 29:31
And Jehovah seeth that Leah is the hated one, and He openeth her womb, and Rachel is barren;
1 Samuel 1:5
and to Hannah he giveth a certain portion -- double, for he hath loved Hannah, and Jehovah hath shut her womb;
Job 6:2-3
O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!
Job 10:1
My soul hath been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:18-19
And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.
Job 23:2
Also -- to-day is my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, 'Better than he is the untimely birth.'
Ecclesiastes 11:10
And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age are vanity!
Jeremiah 20:17
Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.