Parallel Verses
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?
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?
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?
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 womb that bare me. For then should these sorrows have been hid from mine eyes. 11 "Alas, why died I not in the birth? Why did not I perish, as soon as I came out of my mother's womb? 12 Why set they me upon their knees? Why gave they me suck with their breasts?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 10:18-19
Wherefore hast thou brought me out of my mother's womb? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seen me.
Psalm 22:9-10
But thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb; thou wast my hope, when I hanged yet upon my mother's breasts.
Psalm 58:8
Let them consume away like a snail, and like the untimely fruit of a woman; and let them not see the sun.
Psalm 71:6
I have leaned upon thee ever since I was born; thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb, therefore is my praise always of thee.
Psalm 139:13-16
For my reins are thine, thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.
Isaiah 46:3
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all ye that remain yet of the household of Israel, whom I have borne from your mother's womb, and brought you up from your birth, till ye were grown:
Jeremiah 15:10
O mother, alas that ever thou didst bear me, an enemy and hated of the whole land: Though I never lent nor received upon usury, yet all men speak evil upon me.
Hosea 9:14
O LORD thou shalt give them: what shalt thou give them? Give them an unfruitful womb and dry breasts!