Parallel Verses
NET Bible
"Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the 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?
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 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 did not shut the doors of my mother's womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes! 11 "Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb? 12 Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 10:18-19
"Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!
Psalm 22:9-10
Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother's breasts.
Psalm 58:8
Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun!
Psalm 71:6
I have leaned on you since birth; you pulled me from my mother's womb. I praise you continually.
Psalm 139:13-16
Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother's womb.
Isaiah 46:3
"Listen to me, O family of Jacob, all you who are left from the family of Israel, you who have been carried from birth, you who have been supported from the time you left the womb.
Jeremiah 15:10
I said, "Oh, mother, how I regret that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt."
Hosea 9:14
Give them, O Lord -- what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse!