Job 3:11 KJV
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Old Words
- ghost the spirit; the soul
What these words meant when the King James Bible was translated.
Matthew Henry
- Job complainingJob complained of those present at his birth, for their tender attention to him. No creature comes into the world so helpless as man. God's power and...
Thompson Chains
- Death SoughtSee the chain from Numbers 11:15 · 7 links
Parallel Passages
- 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!
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- Job 10:18–19 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! …
- Psalms 22:9–10 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. …
- Psalms 58:8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
- Psalms 71:6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
- Psalms 139:13–16 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. …
- Isaiah 46:3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
- Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
- Hosea 9:14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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Topics
- Afflictions and adversities Unclassified scriptures relating to
- Birthday Cursed
- Death Job
- Despondency General scriptures concerning
- Job Complaints of, and replies by his three friends to
- Life Job
- Murmuring Job
- Presumption Job, in cursing the day of his birth
Strong’s Numbers
- Why died מוּת mûwth
- I not from the womb רֶחֶם rechem
- did I not give up the ghost גָּוַע gâvaʻ
- when I came out יָצָא yâtsâʼ
- of the belly בֶּטֶן beṭen
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