Job 3:10 Cross References - LEB

¹⁰ because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor* did it hide trouble from my eyes.

¹⁸ For Yahweh had completely closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of the matter of Sarah, the wife of Abraham.

³¹ When Yahweh saw that Leah was unloved he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

⁵ But to Hannah he would give _⌊a double portion_⌋,* because he loved Hannah, though Yahweh had closed her womb.

² "If only my vexation could be well weighed, and my calamity could be lifted up together with it in the balances, ³ for then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas; therefore my words have been rash,

¹ "My inner self* loathes my life; _⌊I want to give vent to my complaint_⌋;* I want to speak out of the bitterness of my inner self.*

¹⁸ So* why did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have passed away, _⌊and no eye should have seen me_⌋.* ¹⁹ I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been brought from the womb to the grave.

² "Even today my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy in addition to my groaning.

³ Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his heart* is not satisfied with _⌊his prosperity_⌋* and _⌊he does not receive a proper burial_⌋,* I deem the stillborn better than him. ⁴ For he comes into vanity and departs into darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness. ⁵ He has neither seen nor known the sun, yet he has more rest than him.

¹⁰ Banish anxiety from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and vigor are vanity.

¹⁷ Because he did not kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been for me my grave, and her womb would be pregnant forever.