King James Version (KJV) Authorized Version 1611
Read Full Chapter (Job 3) Job 3:10-16 KJV
"Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light."
Job Chapter 3, Verse 10-16
Job 3:10-16 in Context (Verses 7–19 KJV)
7
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.*
9
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:*
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Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
15
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.*
18
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.