Job 3:10
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hid sorrowe from mine eyes.
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- Ecclesiastes 6:3–5Rank 1 from verse 10
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.
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.
3¶ If a man beget an hundred children, and liue many yeeres, so that the dayes of his yeeres bee many: and his soule be not filled with good, and also that he haue no buriall, I say, that an vntimely birth is better then he.
4For he commeth in with vanitie, and departeth in darkenesse, and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.
5Moreouer hee hath not seene the Sunne, nor knowen any thing: this hath more rest then the other.
- Genesis 20:18Rank 2 from verse 10
- Jeremiah 20:17Rank 3 from verse 10
- 1 Samuel 1:5Rank 4 from verse 10
- Ecclesiastes 11:10Rank 5 from verse 10
- Genesis 29:31Rank 6 from verse 10
2Oh 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.
2Oh that my griefe were throughly weighed, and my calamitie †layd in the balances together.
3For now it would be heauier then the sand of the sea, therefore my words are †swallowed vp.
- Job 10:18–19Rank 10 from verse 10
18Wherefore 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.
18*Wherfore then hast thou brought me forth out of the wombe? Oh that I had giuen vp the ghost, and no eye had seene me!
19I should haue bene as though I had not bene, I should haue bene caried from the wombe to the graue.
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Job 3:10
To close, fasten, block, confine, stop, exclude, or make inaccessible.
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Sense 1: A female parent. Sense 2: Figuratively, a source, chief city, or maternal relation.
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Sense 1: The bodily place in a female where a child is conceived and carried before birth. Sense 2: A source pictured as such a place.
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Put, kept, or placed out of sight, knowledge, discovery, understanding, or danger; concealed, secret, covered, or withheld from perception.
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Sense 1: Grief, sadness, anguish, pain, regret, distress, trouble, or heaviness. Sense 2: To grieve or cause such pain.
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The bodily organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, observation, perception, understanding, desire, judgment, estimation, favour, or the presence and view before which something occurs.
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9Let 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:
9Let the starres of the twilight thereof be darke, let it looke for light, but haue none, neither let it see† the dawning of the day:
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.
Selected passage11Why 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?