Parallel Verses
World English Bible
"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
New American Standard Bible
Come forth from the womb and expire?
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?
Holman Bible
why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?
International Standard Version
Why didn't I die while I was still in the womb, or die while I was being born?
A Conservative Version
Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
American Standard Version
Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
Amplified
“Why did I not die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?
Bible in Basic English
Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?
Darby Translation
Wherefore did I not die from the womb, come forth from the belly and expire?
Julia Smith Translation
Wherefore shall I not die from the womb? and I came forth from the belly, and I shall expire.
King James 2000
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire when I came out of the womb?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Why did I not die at birth? [Why] did I [not] come forth from [the] womb and expire?
Modern King James verseion
Why did I not die from the womb, come from the womb and expire?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Alas, why died I not in the birth? Why did not I perish, as soon as I came out of my mother's womb?
NET Bible
"Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
New Heart English Bible
"Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe?
Webster
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth?
Youngs Literal Translation
Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!
Interlinear
Muwth
Gava`
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Wishes He Had Died
10 because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. 11 "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? 12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 10:18-19
"'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
Psalm 22:9-10
But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts.
Psalm 58:8
Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
Psalm 71:6
I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother's womb. I will always praise you.
Psalm 139:13-16
For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother's womb.
Isaiah 46:3
"Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have been carried from the womb;
Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me.
Hosea 9:14
Give them -- Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.