Job 3:10 Cross References - BSB

¹⁰ For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.

¹⁸ for on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household.

³¹ When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

⁵ But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.

² “If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales. ³ For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas—no wonder my words have been rash.

¹ “I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

¹⁸ Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me! ¹⁹ If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

² “Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

³ A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. ⁴ For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity. ⁵ The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,

¹⁰ So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.

¹⁷ because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.