Job 3:10

King James Version:

(The Lord speaking is red text)

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

Complete Jewish Bible:

because it didn't shut the doors of the womb I was in and shield my eyes from trouble.

Berean Standard Bible:

For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.

American Standard Version:

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

KJV with Strong’s Numbers:

Because it shut not up{H5462} the doors{H1817} of my mother's womb{H990}, nor hid{H5641} sorrow{H5999} from mine eyes{H5869}.

Cross-References (KJV):

Ecclesiastes 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] better than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

  • Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known [any thing]: this hath more rest than the other.

1 Samuel 1:5

  • But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.

Genesis 29:31

  • ¶ And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel [was] barren.

Job 10:1

  • ¶ My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

  • Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth [are] vanity.

Genesis 20:18

  • For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

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Commentary for Job 3:10

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Strong's Numbers and Definitions:

Note: H = Hebrew (OT), G = Greek (NT)

  1. Strong's Number: H5462
    There are 87 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: סָגַר
    Transliteration: çâgar
    Pronunciation: saw-gar'
    Description: a primitive root; to shut up; figuratively, to surrender; close up, deliver (up), give over (up), inclose, [idiom] pure, repair, shut (in, self, out, up, up together), stop, [idiom] straitly.
  2. Strong's Number: H1817
    There are 78 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: דֶּלֶת
    Transliteration: deleth
    Pronunciation: deh'-leth
    Description: from דָּלָה; something swinging, i.e. the valve of adoor; door (two-leaved), gate, leaf, lid. (Psalm 141:3).
  3. Strong's Number: H990
    There are 72 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: בֶּטֶן
    Transliteration: beṭen
    Pronunciation: beh'-ten
    Description: from an unused root probably meaning to be hollow; the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything; belly, body, [phrase] as they be born, [phrase] within, womb.
  4. Strong's Number: H5641
    There are 80 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: סָתַר
    Transliteration: çâthar
    Pronunciation: saw-thar'
    Description: a primitive root; to hide (by covering), literally or figuratively; be absent, keep close, conceal, hide (self), (keep) secret, [idiom] surely.
  5. Strong's Number: H5999
    There are 54 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: עָמָל
    Transliteration: ʻâmâl
    Pronunciation: aw-mawl'
    Description: from עָמַל; toil, i.e. wearing effort; hence, worry, wheth. of body or mind; grievance(-vousness), iniquity, labour, mischief, miserable(-sery), pain(-ful), perverseness, sorrow, toil, travail, trouble, wearisome, wickedness.
  6. Strong's Number: H5869
    There are 830 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: עַיִן
    Transliteration: ʻayin
    Pronunciation: ah'-yin
    Description: probably a primitive word; an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape); affliction, outward appearance, [phrase] before, [phrase] think best, colour, conceit, [phrase] be content, countenance, [phrase] displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, [phrase] favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), [idiom] him, [phrase] humble, knowledge, look, ([phrase] well), [idiom] me, open(-ly), [phrase] (not) please, presence, [phrase] regard, resemblance, sight, [idiom] thee, [idiom] them, [phrase] think, [idiom] us, well, [idiom] you(-rselves).