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Job 3:10

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

KJV

Quia non conclusit ostia ventris qui portavit me, nec abstulit mala ab oculis meis.

Vulgate

ὅτι οὐ συνέκλεισεν πύλας γαστρὸς μητρός μου· ἀπήλλαξεν γὰρ ἂν πόνον ἀπὸ ὀφθαλμῶν μου.

LXX

Because it shut not up the doors of mymother’swomb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

ASV

כִּ֤י לֹ֣א סָ֭גַר דַּלְתֵ֣י בִטְנִ֑/י וַ/יַּסְתֵּ֥ר עָ֝מָ֗ל מֵ/עֵינָֽ/י

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

דַּלְת֣וֹת
dltvt
noun · 89×
וֹ
v
noun · 55×
י
y
noun · 72×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
נִי
ny
verb · 82×
סָג֑וּר
sgvr
verb · 91×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Eccl 6:3 — If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is
  • Gen 20:18 — For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
  • Jer 20:17 — Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
  • Jer 20:17 — Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.