Job 3:10 Cross References - ISV

¹⁰ “Because that night refused to shut the doors of my mother’s womb; it failed to keep me from seeing this trouble.

¹⁸ since the LORD had made all the women barren in Abimelech’s household on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah.

³¹ Leah’s ChildrenLater, the LORD noticed that Leah was being neglected, so he made her fertile, while Rachel remained childless.

⁵ but he would give twice as much to Hannah because he loved her.
Now the LORD had closed her womb.

² “If only my grief could be weighed; or my calamity piled together on a balance scale! ³ It would weigh more than the sand on the seashore! Here’s why I’ve talked so rashly:

¹ Job Asks God to Acquit Him “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.

¹⁸ So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me, ¹⁹ as if I had never existed; carried from the womb to the grave.

² “I’m still complaining bitterly today; my hand is heavy because of groaning.

³ 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, ⁴ because stillborn children arrive in pointlessness, leave in darkness, and their names are covered in darkness. ⁵ Furthermore, though they never saw the sun nor learned anything, they are more content than the other.

¹⁰ Banish sorrow from your heart, and evil from your body, since both childhood and the prime of life are pointless.

¹⁷ because he didn’t kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave and her womb forever pregnant.