Job 3:11

Job · Old Testament · Chapter 3

“Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?”Job 3:11

What Does Job 3:11 Mean?

Job 3:11 is found in the book of Job, chapter 3, verse 11 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 13 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.

Cross-References (13)

These passages are connected to Job 3:11 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.

Ecclesiastes 4:2“Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.”Genesis 30:1“And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.”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!”Isaiah 46:3“Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb:”Numbers 14:2“And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!”Job 40:2“Shall he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let him answer it.”Psalms 22:9“But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.”Psalms 58:8“As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.”Psalms 71:6“By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.”Psalms 139:13“For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.”Jeremiah 15:10“Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.”Hosea 9:14“Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.”Job 14:10“But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?”

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