Job 3:10 Cross References - NSB

¹⁰ for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.

¹⁸ Jehovah had made it impossible for any woman in Abimelech’s household to have children because of Abraham’s wife Sarah.

³¹ Jehovah saw that Leah was loved less, so he made it possible for her to have children. But Rachel had none.

⁵ He gave a double portion to Hannah. Hannah was very dear to him even though Jehovah had not given her children.

² »If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales! ³ »It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas, no wonder my words have been impetuous.

¹ »I loathe my very life. I will therefore give free rein to my complaint and speak out in my bitterness.

¹⁸ »‘Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before anyone saw me. ¹⁹ »‘If only I had never come into being, or had been carried straight from the womb to the grave!’«

² »Even today my complaint is bitter rebellion. God’s hand is heavy despite my groaning.

³ A man can have a hundred children and live many years. If he does not enjoy prosperity and have a decent burial, a stillborn child is better off then he. ⁴ For he comes in with vanity and departs in darkness, and his name will be covered with darkness. ⁵ »Moreover he has not seen the sun nor known anything. The stillborn child has more rest than the other.

¹⁰ Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh, for childhood and youth are vanity.

¹⁷ He did not kill me before birth, so that my mother would have been my grave, and her womb ever pregnant.