Job 3:11
Strong's Lexicon
Why
לָ֤מָּה (lām·māh)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: interr pron 1) what, how, of what kind 1a) (interrogative) 1a1) what? 1a2) of what kind 1a3) what? (rhetorical) 1a4) whatsoever, whatever, what 1b) (adverb) 1b1) how, how now 1b2) why 1b3) how! (exclamation) 1c) (with prep) 1c1) wherein?, whereby?, wherewith?, by what means? 1c2) because of what? 1c3) the like of what? 1c3a) how much?, how many?, how often? 1c3b) for how long? 1c4) for what reason?, why?, to what purpose? 1c5) until when?, how long?, upon what?, wherefore? indef pron 2) anything, aught, what may

did I not perish
אָמ֑וּת (’ā·mūṯ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 4191: 1) to die, kill, have one executed 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to die 1a2) to die (as penalty), be put to death 1a3) to die, perish (of a nation) 1a4) to die prematurely (by neglect of wise moral conduct) 1b) (Polel) to kill, put to death, dispatch 1c) (Hiphil) to kill, put to death 1d) (Hophal) 1d1) to be killed, be put to death 1d1a) to die prematurely

at birth;
מֵרֶ֣חֶם (mê·re·ḥem)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7358: 1) womb 1a) womb 1b) womb-man, woman-slave, woman, two women

why did I not die
וְאֶגְוָֽע׃ (wə·’eḡ·wā‘)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1478: 1) to expire, die, perish, give up the ghost, yield up the ghost, be dead, be ready to die 1a) (Qal) to expire, die, be about to die

as I came
יָצָ֣אתִי (yā·ṣā·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3318: 1) to go out, come out, exit, go forth 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to go or come out or forth, depart 1a2) to go forth (to a place) 1a3) to go forward, proceed to (to or toward something) 1a4) to come or go forth (with purpose or for result) 1a5) to come out of 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause to go or come out, bring out, lead out 1b2) to bring out of 1b3) to lead out 1b4) to deliver 1c) (Hophal) to be brought out or forth

from the womb ?
מִבֶּ֖טֶן (mib·be·ṭen)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 990: 1) belly, womb, body 1a) belly, abdomen 1a1) as seat of hunger 1a2) as seat of mental faculties 1a3) of depth of Sheol (fig.) 1b) womb

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Why was I not  stillborn ; why didn’t I die as I came from  the womb? 

New American Standard Bible
"Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire?

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?
Parallel Verses
New International Version
"Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?

New Living Translation
"Why wasn't I born dead? Why didn't I die as I came from the womb?

English Standard Version
“Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?

New American Standard Bible
"Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire?

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?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Why was I not stillborn; 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?

NET Bible
"Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?

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

English Revised Version
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

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
















Cross References
Job 3:10
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

Job 3:12
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

Job 10:18
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

Job 10:19
I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Ecclesiastes 4:2
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:3
Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Jeremiah 20:17
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 3:9
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

Job 3:8
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

Job 3:13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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