Job 3:11
King James Version (KJV)
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
In context
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Job 3:11 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
- WEB World English Bible
- “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
- ASV American Standard Version
- Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!
- DBY Darby Translation
- Wherefore did I not die from the womb, — come forth from the belly and expire?
- WBS Webster Bible
- Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth?