Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly? died I. Psalm 58:8 Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun. Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me. Hosea 9:14 Give them, O Lord. What wilt thou give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts. when I came. Psalm 22:9,10 For thou art he that hast drawn me out of the womb: my hope from the breasts of my mother. . . . Psalm 71:6 By thee have I been confirmed from the womb: from my mother's womb thou art my protector. Of thee I shall continually sing: Psalm 139:13-16 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast protected me from my mother's womb. . . . Isaiah 46:3 They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not save him that carried them, and they themselves shall go into captivity. Context Job Laments His Birth…10Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes. 11Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?12Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts?… Cross References Job 3:10 Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes. Job 3:12 Why received upon the knees? why suckled at the breasts? Job 10:18 Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me! Job 10:19 I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave. Ecclesiastes 4:2 And I praised the dead rather than the living: Ecclesiastes 4:3 And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that are done under the sun. Jeremiah 20:17 Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception. Lexicon Whyלָ֤מָּה (lām·māh) Interrogative Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what did I not perish אָמ֑וּת (’ā·mūṯ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 4191: To die, to kill at birth; מֵרֶ֣חֶם (mê·re·ḥem) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 7358: The womb why did I not die וְאֶגְוָֽע׃ (wə·’eḡ·wā‘) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 1478: To breathe out, expire as I came יָצָ֣אתִי (yā·ṣā·ṯî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular Strong's Hebrew 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim from the womb? מִבֶּ֖טֶן (mib·be·ṭen) Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 990: The belly, the womb, the bosom, body of anything Additional Translations Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me? For why died I not in the belly? and why did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately? Wherefore did I not die from the womb, -- come forth from the belly and expire? Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth? "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp! Jump to Previous Bare Belly Birth Body Bore Breath Death Die Died Expire Forth Gasp Ghost Last Mother Mother's Perish Spirit Time WombJump to Next Bare Belly Birth Body Bore Breath Death Die Died Expire Forth Gasp Ghost Last Mother Mother's Perish Spirit Time WombExternal Links Job 3:11 NIVJob 3:11 NLT Job 3:11 ESV Job 3:11 NASB Job 3:11 ASV Job 3:11 Bible Apps Job 3:11 Biblia Paralela Job 3:11 Chinese Bible Job 3:11 French Bible Job 3:11 German Bible Alphabetical: and as at birth came Come did die expire forth from I not perish the Why womb OT Poetry: Job 3:11 Why didn't I die from the womb? (Jb) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |