Job 3:11
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New International Version (© 2011)
"Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?

King James Bible
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

American Standard Version
Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

Young's Literal Translation
Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!

Job 3:11 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Why died I not from the womb - As the other circumstance did not take place, why was I not still-born, without the possibility of reviviscence? or, as this did not occur, why did I not die as soon as born? These three things appear to me to be clearly intended here: -

1. Dying in the womb, or never coming to maturity, as in the case of an abortion.

2. Being still-born, without ever being able to breathe.

3. Or, if born alive, dying within a short time after. And to these states he seems to refer in the following verses.

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Psalm 58:8 As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury...

Hosea 9:14 Give them, O LORD: what will you give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

when I came.

Psalm 22:9,10 But you are he that took me out of the womb: you did make me hope when I was on my mother's breasts...

Psalm 71:6 By you have I been held up from the womb: you are he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of you.

Psalm 139:13-16 For you have possessed my reins: you have covered me in my mother's womb...

Isaiah 46:3 Listen to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly...

Job 3:11 Parallel Commentaries
Bare Belly Birth Body Bore Breath Death Die Died Expire Forth Gasp Ghost Last Mother Mother's Perish Spirit Time Womb
Bare Belly Birth Body Bore Breath Death Die Died Expire Forth Gasp Ghost Last Mother Mother's Perish Spirit Time Womb
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Job 3:10 for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.
Job 3:12 Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?
Job 10:18 "Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before any eye saw me.
Job 10:19 If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!
Ecclesiastes 4:2 And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive.
Ecclesiastes 4:3 But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
Jeremiah 20:17 For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever.