Job 3:10

Job · Old Testament · Chapter 3

“Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.”Job 3:10

What Does Job 3:10 Mean?

Job 3:10 is found in the book of Job, chapter 3, verse 10 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 14 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.

Cross-References (14)

These passages are connected to Job 3:10 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.

Jeremiah 20:17“Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.”Genesis 20:18“For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.”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.”Genesis 29:31“And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.”Exodus 16:3“And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”Numbers 20:3“And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!”1 Samuel 1:5“But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.”Job 6:2“Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!”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.”Job 10:18“Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!”Job 23:2“Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.”Ecclesiastes 4:3“Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.”Ecclesiastes 6:5“Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.”Ecclesiastes 11:10“Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.”

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