Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"Because that night refused to shut the doors of my mother's womb; it failed to keep me from seeing this trouble.
New American Standard Bible
Or hide trouble from my eyes.
King James Version
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Holman Bible
the doors of my mother’s womb,
and hide sorrow from my eyes.
A Conservative Version
Because it did not shut up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
American Standard Version
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.
Amplified
Because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hide trouble from my eyes.
Bible in Basic English
Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.
Darby Translation
Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
Julia Smith Translation
Because it shut not up the doors of my belly; and shall it hide the labor of mine eyes?
King James 2000
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
Lexham Expanded Bible
because it did not shut the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
Modern King James verseion
For it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
because it shut not up the womb that bare me. For then should these sorrows have been hid from mine eyes.
NET Bible
because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!
New Heart English Bible
because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
The Emphasized Bible
Because it closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes.
Webster
Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
World English Bible
because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
Youngs Literal Translation
Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Regrets His Birth
9 Let the stars of its evening twilight be dark; let it hope for light but let there be none; let it not see the breaking rays of the dawn. 10 "Because that night refused to shut the doors of my mother's womb; it failed to keep me from seeing this trouble. 11 Why didn't I die while I was still in the womb, or die while I was being born?
Names
Cross References
Genesis 20:18
since the LORD had made all the women barren in Abimelech's household on account of Abraham's wife Sarah.
Genesis 29:31
Later, the LORD noticed that Leah was being neglected, so he made her fertile, while Rachel remained childless.
1 Samuel 1:5
but he would give twice as much to Hannah because he loved her.
Job 6:2-3
"If only my grief could be weighed; or my calamity piled together on a balance scale!
Job 10:1
"I am disgusted with living, so I'm going to talk about my complaint freely. I'll speak out from the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:18-19
So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me,
Job 23:2
"I'm still complaining bitterly today; my hand is heavy because of groaning.
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
A man might father a hundred children, and live for many years, so that the length of his life is long but if his life does not overflow with goodness, and he doesn't receive a proper burial, I maintain that stillborn children are better off than he is,
Ecclesiastes 11:10
Banish sorrow from your heart, and evil from your body, since both childhood and the prime of life are pointless.
Jeremiah 20:17
because he didn't kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave and her womb forever pregnant.