KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 3:10–11
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Job 3:10
10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
10Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hid sorrowe from mine eyes.
Job 3:11
11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
11Why died I not from the wombe? why did I not giue vp the ghost when I came out of the bellie?
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 3:10
For the reason that; since.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To close, fasten, or exclude; to become closed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A female parent; figuratively, a source, chief city, or maternal relation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Concealed, covered, kept secret, or placed out of sight.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Grief, mental pain, distress, or mourning; also to grieve.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, judgment, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 3:11
To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The spirit; in 'give up the ghost,' to yield the spirit and die.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 10
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Open the full verse study3¶ 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.
4For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
5Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
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Open the full verse study18For the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham’s wife.
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Open the full verse study17Because 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.
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Open the full verse study5But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the Lord had shut up her womb.
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Open the full verse study10Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
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Open the full verse study31¶ And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.
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Open the full verse study1MY soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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Open the full verse study2Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
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Open the full verse study2Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!
3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.
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Open the full verse study18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
From verse 11
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Open the full verse study3¶ 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:
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Open the full verse study18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
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Open the full verse study14Give them, O Lord: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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Open the full verse study10¶ 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.
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Open the full verse study13For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
14I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
15My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
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Open the full verse study9But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
10I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
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Open the full verse study8As 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.
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Open the full verse study6By 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.
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