Job 3:10

because it ¹  did not shut the doors ²  of my mother’s womb on me, ³  nor did it hide trouble ⁴  from my eyes!

biblegateway Job 3:10

for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.

biblegateway Job 3:10

Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb, Or hide trouble from my eyes.

biblegateway Job 3:10

Curse it for its failure to shut my mother’s womb, for letting me be born to all this trouble.

biblegateway Job 3:10

And why? Because it released me from my mother's womb into a life with so much trouble.

SABDAweb Job 3:10

Because it did not keep the doors of my mother’s body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

bibleoremus Job 3:10

because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, and hide trouble from my eyes.

biblegateway Job 3:10

Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

biblegateway Job 3:10

because it ¹  did not shut the doors ²  of my mother’s womb on me, ³  nor did it hide trouble ⁴  from my eyes!

¹ tn The subject is still “that night.” Here, at the end of this first section, Job finally expresses the crime of that night – it did not hinder his birth.

² sn This use of doors for the womb forms an implied comparison; the night should have hindered conception (see Gen 20:18 and 1 Sam 1:5).

³ tn The Hebrew has simply “my belly [= womb].” The suffix on the noun must be objective – it was the womb of Job’s mother in which he lay before his birth. See however N. C. Habel, “The Dative Suffix in Job 33:13,” Bib 63 (1982): 258-59, who thinks it is deliberately ambiguous.

⁴ tn The word עָמָל (’amal) means “work, heavy labor, agonizing labor, struggle” with the idea of fatigue and pain.