King James Version
Job 3:10 in the King James Version says “Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.” — study this verse from Job chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.”
Job 3:10 · KJV
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. their: or, leviathan
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: the dawning: Heb. the eyelids of the morning
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?
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“of my mother's womb”
H990the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything
“from mine eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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