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Text -- Job 3:11 (NET)

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Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth
3:11 “Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: Presumption | Life | Job | GHOST | Doubting | Despondency | Death | Complaint | Birthday | Afflictions and Adversities | more
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Clarke: Job 3:11 - -- Why died I not from the womb - As the other circumstance did not take place, why was I not still-born, without the possibility of reviviscence? or, ...

Why died I not from the womb - As the other circumstance did not take place, why was I not still-born, without the possibility of reviviscence? or, as this did not occur, why did I not die as soon as born? These three things appear to me to be clearly intended here: -

1.    Dying in the womb, or never coming to maturity, as in the case of an abortion

2.    Being still-born, without ever being able to breathe

3.    Or, if born alive, dying within a short time after. And to these states he seems to refer in the following verses.

TSK: Job 3:11 - -- died I : Psa 58:8; Jer 15:10; Hos 9:14 when I came : Psa 22:9, Psa 22:10, Psa 71:6, Psa 139:13-16; Isa 46:3

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Job 3:11 - -- Why died I not from the womb? - Why did I not die as soon as I was born? Why were any pains taken to keep me alive? The suggestion of this ques...

Why died I not from the womb? - Why did I not die as soon as I was born? Why were any pains taken to keep me alive? The suggestion of this question leads Job in the following verses into the beautiful description, of what he would have been if he had then died. He complains, therefore, that any pains were taken by his friends to keep him alive, and that he was not suffered peacefully to expire.

Gave up the ghost - A phrase that is often used in the English version of the Bible to denote death; Gen 49:33; Job 11:20; Job 14:10; Jer 15:9; Mat 27:50; Act 5:10. It conveys an idea, however, which is not necessarily in the original, though the idea in itself is not incorrect. The idea conveyed by the phrase is that of yielding up the "spirit"or "soul,"while the sense of the original here and elsewhere is simply "to expire, to die."

Poole: Job 3:11 - -- From the womb i.e. as soon as ever I was born, or come out of the womb. And the same thing is expressed in other words, which is an elegancy usual bo...

From the womb i.e. as soon as ever I was born, or come out of the womb. And the same thing is expressed in other words, which is an elegancy usual both in the Hebrew and in other languages.

Haydock: Job 3:11 - -- In the. Hebrew, "from the womb," (Haydock) or as soon as I was born. (Calmet) --- He seems to have lost sight of original sin, (ver. 1.) or there ...

In the. Hebrew, "from the womb," (Haydock) or as soon as I was born. (Calmet) ---

He seems to have lost sight of original sin, (ver. 1.) or there might be some method of having it remitted to children unborn, which we do not know. (Haydock)

Gill: Job 3:11 - -- Why died I not from the womb?.... That is, as soon as he came out of it; or rather, as soon as he was in it, or from the time that he was in it; or ho...

Why died I not from the womb?.... That is, as soon as he came out of it; or rather, as soon as he was in it, or from the time that he was in it; or however, while he was in it, that so he might not have come alive out of it; which sense seems best to agree both with what goes before and follows after; for since his conception in the womb was not hindered, he wishes he had died in it; and so some versions render it to this sense n:

why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? since he died not in the womb, which was desirable to him, he wishes that the moment he came out of it he had expired, and is displeased because it was not so, see Jer 20:17; thus what is the special favour of Providence, to be taken out of the womb alive, and preserved, he wishes not to have enjoyed, see Psa 22:9.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 3:11 The two halves of the verse use the prepositional phrases (“from the womb” and “from the belly I went out”) in the temporal se...

Geneva Bible: Job 3:11 ( h ) Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? ( h ) This, and that which follows declares, th...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Job 3:1-26 - --1 Job curses the day and services of his birth.13 The ease of death.20 He complains of life, because of his anguish.

MHCC: Job 3:11-19 - --Job complained of those present at his birth, for their tender attention to him. No creature comes into the world so helpless as man. God's power and ...

Matthew Henry: Job 3:11-19 - -- Job, perhaps reflecting upon himself for his folly in wishing he had never been born, follows it, and thinks to mend it, with another, little better...

Keil-Delitzsch: Job 3:10-12 - -- 10 Because it did not close the doors of my mother's womb, Nor hid sorrow from my eyes. 11 Why did I not die from the womb, Come forth from the w...

Constable: Job 3:1-26 - --A. Job's Personal Lament ch. 3 The poetic body to the book begins with a soliloquy in which Job cursed t...

Constable: Job 3:11-19 - --2. The wish that he had died at birth 3:11-19 Another acceptable alternative to Job was that he ...

Guzik: Job 3:1-26 - --Job 3 - Job Curses the Day of His Birth A. Wishes he had never been born. 1. (1-2) Job will curse his birth day, but not his God. After this Job o...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Job (Book Introduction) JOB A REAL PERSON.--It has been supposed by some that the book of Job is an allegory, not a real narrative, on account of the artificial character of ...

JFB: Job (Outline) THE HOLINESS OF JOB, HIS WEALTH, &c. (Job 1:1-5) SATAN, APPEARING BEFORE GOD, FALSELY ACCUSES JOB. (Job 1:6-12) SATAN FURTHER TEMPTS JOB. (Job 2:1-8)...

TSK: Job (Book Introduction) A large aquatic animal, perhaps the extinct dinosaur, plesiosaurus, the exact meaning is unknown. Some think this to be a crocodile but from the desc...

TSK: Job 3 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Job 3:1, Job curses the day and services of his birth; Job 3:13, The ease of death; Job 3:20, He complains of life, because of his anguis...

Poole: Job 3 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 3 Job curseth the day and services of his birth, Job 3:1-12 . The ease and honours of death, Job 3:13-19 . Life in anguish matter of compla...

MHCC: Job (Book Introduction) This book is so called from Job, whose prosperity, afflictions, and restoration, are here recorded. He lived soon after Abraham, or perhaps before tha...

MHCC: Job 3 (Chapter Introduction) (Job 3:1-10) Job complains that he was born. (Job 3:11-19) Job complaining. (Job 3:20-26) He complains of his life.

Matthew Henry: Job (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of Job This book of Job stands by itself, is not connected with any other, and is therefore to...

Matthew Henry: Job 3 (Chapter Introduction) " You have heard of the patience of Job," says the apostle, Jam 5:11. So we have, and of his impatience too. We wondered that a man should be so p...

Constable: Job (Book Introduction) Introduction Title This book, like many others in the Old Testament, got its name from...

Constable: Job (Outline) Outline I. Prologue chs. 1-2 A. Job's character 1:1-5 B. Job's calamitie...

Constable: Job Job Bibliography Andersen, Francis I. Job. Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries series. Leicester, Eng. and Downe...

Haydock: Job (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF JOB. INTRODUCTION. This Book takes its name from the holy man, of whom it treats; who, according to the more probable opinion, was ...

Gill: Job (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JOB This book, in the Hebrew copies, generally goes by this name, from Job, who is however the subject, if not the writer of it. In...

Gill: Job 3 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JOB 3 In this chapter we have an account of Job's cursing the day of his birth, and the night of his conception; Job 3:1; first the...

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