Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Wherefore did I not die from the womb, come forth from the belly 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?
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?
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 shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes. 11 Wherefore did I not die from the womb, come forth from the belly and expire? 12 Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 10:18-19
And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.
Psalm 22:9-10
But thou art he that took me out of the womb; thou didst make me trust, upon my mother's breasts.
Psalm 58:8
Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; like the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.
Psalm 71:6
On thee have I been stayed from the womb; from the bowels of my mother thou didst draw me forth: my praise shall be continually of thee.
Psalm 139:13-16
For thou hast possessed my reins; thou didst cover me in my mother's womb.
Isaiah 46:3
Hearken unto me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, ye who have been borne from the belly, who have been carried from the womb:
Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole land! I have not lent on usury, nor have they lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Hosea 9:14
Give them, Jehovah what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.