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Job 3:11

Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

KJV

Quare non in vulva mortuus sum ? egressus ex utero non statim perii ?

Vulgate

διὰ τί γὰρ ἐν κοιλίᾳ οὐκ ἐτελεύτησα; ἐκ γαστρὸς δὲ ἐξῆλθον καὶ οὐκ εὐθὺς ἀπωλόμην;

LXX

Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?

ASV

לָ֤/מָּה לֹּ֣א מֵ/רֶ֣חֶם אָמ֑וּת מִ/בֶּ֖טֶן יָצָ֣אתִי וְ/אֶגְוָֽע

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

הוּ
hv
verb · 834×
י
y
noun · 72×
יִּגְוַ֨ע
ygv'
verb · 22×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
verb · 1071×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
רֶ֖חֶם
rchm
noun · 26×

Historic Christian voices

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

Cross-references

  • Eccl 4:2 — Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
  • Gen 30:1 — And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
  • Isa 46:3 — Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:
  • Job 10:18 — Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!