Job 3:10
For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
BSB
ASV
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
KJV
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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Ecclesiastes 11:10So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.
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Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”
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Jeremiah 20:17because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
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For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
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Genesis 20:18for on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household.
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The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
Because it shut not up the doors - Here is the reason why he curses the day and the night in which he was conceived and born; because, had he never been brought into existence, he would never have seen trouble. It seems, however, very harsh that he should have wished the destruction of his mother, in order that his birth might have been prevented; and I rather think Job’s execration did not extend thus far.
It - The night or the day: to which those things are ascribed which were done by others in them, as is frequent in poetical writings. Womb - That it might never have brought me forth.
Is this Job, who was so much admired for his wisdom that unto him men gave ear, and kept silence at his counsel, and after his words they spoke not again? ch. xxix. Surely his wisdom failed him, (1.) When he took so much pains to express his desire that he had never been born, which, at the best was a vain wish, for it is impossible to make that which has been not to have been.
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