King James Version
Job 3:11 in the King James Version says “Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?” — study this verse from Job chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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 · KJV
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?
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“when I came out”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“why did I not give up the ghost”
H1478to breathe out, i.e., (by implication) expire
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