Job 3:11
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?In other versions
Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
ASV
Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?
BBE
Wherefore did I not die from the womb, -- come forth from the belly and expire?
DBY
"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
WEB
Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!
YLT
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the spirit when I came out of the belly?
ENG
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth?
WBT
Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
BSB
In context
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:
10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,