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<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Why did the knees receive me,<br>         And why the breasts, that I should suck? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>For now I would have lain down and been quiet;<br>         I would have slept then, I would have been at rest, <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>With kings and <i>with</i> counselors of the earth,<br>         Who rebuilt ruins for themselves; <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Or with princes who had gold,<br>         Who were filling their houses <i>with</i> silver. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be,<br>         As infants that never saw light. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>There the wicked cease from raging,<br>         And there the weary are at rest. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>The prisoners are at ease together;<br>         They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>The small and the great are there,<br>         And the slave is free from his master. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>Why is light given to him who suffers,<br>         And life to the bitter of soul, <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>Who long for death, but there is none,<br>         And dig for it more than for hidden treasures, <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Who rejoice greatly,<br>         <i>And</i> exult when they find the grave? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span><i>Why is light given</i> to a man whose way is hidden,<br>         And whom God has hedged in? <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,<br>         And my cries pour out like water. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>For what I fear comes upon me,<br>         And what I dread befalls me. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/3-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>I am not at ease, nor am I quiet,<br>         And I am not at rest, but turmoil comes. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/job/3.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/job/3.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Why did I not die in the womb, why did I not perish when I came out of the belly? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/job/3.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Wherefore did I not die from the womb, come forth from the belly and expire?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/job/3.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/job/3.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Why died I not from the womb? why did I not expire at the time of my birth?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/job/3.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/job/3.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/march_2_evening.htm">March 2 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.--HEB. 4:9. There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth; they . . . rest from their labours; and their works do follow them. Our friend Lazarus sleepeth . . . Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. We that are in this tabernacle do groan, <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/march_2_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_127_the_trouble_and.htm">The Trouble and Rest of Good Men "There the Wicked Cease from Troubling</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Sermon 127 The Trouble and Rest of Good Men "There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest." Job 3:17. When God at first surveyed all the works he had made, "behold, they were very good." All were perfect in beauty, and man, the lord of all, was perfect in holiness. And as his holiness was, so was his happiness. Knowing no sin, he knew no pain. But when sin was conceived, it soon brought forth pain; the whole scene was changed in a moment. He now groaned under the weight of <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/sermons_on_several_occasions/sermon_127_the_trouble_and.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Wesley—</span><span class="citation2">Sermons on Several Occasions</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_46_1900/the_sorrowful_mans_question.htm">The Sorrowful Man's Question</a><br></span><span class="snippet">"Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?"--Job 3:23. I AM VERY THANKFUL that so many of you are glad and happy. There is none too much joy in the world, and the more that any of us can create, the better. It should be a part of our happiness, and a man part of it, to try to make other people glad. "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people," is a commission which many of us ought to feel is entrusted to us. If your own cup of joy is full, let it run over to others who <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/spurgeons_sermons_volume_46_1900/the_sorrowful_mans_question.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Charles Haddon Spurgeon—</span><span class="citation2">Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 46: 1900</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bayly/the_practice_of_piety/a_prayer_when_one_begins.htm">A Prayer when one Begins to be Sick. </a><br></span><span class="snippet">O most righteous Judge, yet in Jesus Christ my gracious Father! I, wretched sinner, do here return unto thee, though driven with pain and sickness, like the prodigal child with want and hunger. I acknowledge that this sickness and pain comes not by blind chance or fortune, but by thy divine providence and special appointment. It is the stroke of thy heavy hand, which my sins have justly deserved; and the things that I feared are now fallen upon me (Job iii. 25.) Yet do I well perceive that in wrath <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/bayly/the_practice_of_piety/a_prayer_when_one_begins.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Lewis Bayly—</span><span class="citation2">The Practice of Piety</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/nature_and_grace/article_four_whether_servile_fear.htm">Whether Servile Fear is Good</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Whether Servile Fear is Good We proceed to the fourth article thus: 1. It seems that servile fear is not good. If the use of a thing is evil, the thing itself is evil. Now the use of servile fear is evil, since "he who does something out of fear does not do well, even though that which is done be good," as the gloss says on Rom. ch. 8. It follows that servile fear is not good. 2. Again, that which has its origin in a root of sin is not good. Servile fear has its origin in a root of sin. For on Job <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/nature_and_grace/article_four_whether_servile_fear.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Nature and Grace</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_it_is_lawful_to_14.htm">Whether it is Lawful to Curse an Irrational Creature?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that it is unlawful to curse an irrational creature. Cursing would seem to be lawful chiefly in its relation to punishment. Now irrational creatures are not competent subjects either of guilt or of punishment. Therefore it is unlawful to curse them. Objection 2: Further, in an irrational creature there is nothing but the nature which God made. But it is unlawful to curse this even in the devil, as stated above [2960](A[1]). Therefore it is nowise lawful to curse an irrational <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_it_is_lawful_to_14.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_in_the_state_of_9.htm">Whether in the State of Innocence Children Would have Been Born Confirmed in Righteousness?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that in the state of innocence children would have been born confirmed in righteousness. For Gregory says (Moral. iv) on the words of Job 3:13: "For now I should have been asleep, etc.: If no sinful corruption had infected our first parent, he would not have begotten "children of hell"; no children would have been born of him but such as were destined to be saved by the Redeemer." Therefore all would have been born confirmed in righteousness. Objection 2: Further, Anselm <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_in_the_state_of_9.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_blessed_virgin_was_2.htm">Whether the Blessed virgin was Sanctified Before Animation?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that the Blessed Virgin was sanctified before animation. Because, as we have stated [4127](A[1]), more grace was bestowed on the Virgin Mother of God than on any saint. Now it seems to have been granted to some, to be sanctified before animation. For it is written (Jer. 1:5): "Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee": and the soul is not infused before the formation of the body. Likewise Ambrose says of John the Baptist (Comment. in Luc. i, 15): "As <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_the_blessed_virgin_was_2.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_servile_fear_is_good.htm">Whether Servile Fear is Good?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem that servile fear is not good. For if the use of a thing is evil, the thing itself is evil. Now the use of servile fear is evil, for according to a gloss on Rom. 8:15, "if a man do anything through fear, although the deed be good, it is not well done." Therefore servile fear is not good. Objection 2: Further, no good grows from a sinful root. Now servile fear grows from a sinful root, because when commenting on Job 3:11, "Why did I not die in the womb?" Gregory says (Moral. <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_servile_fear_is_good.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_it_is_lawful_to_13.htm">Whether it is Lawful to Curse Anyone?</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Objection 1: It would seem unlawful to curse anyone. For it is unlawful to disregard the command of the Apostle in whom Christ spoke, according to 2 Cor. 13:3. Now he commanded (Rom. 12:14), "Bless and curse not." Therefore it is not lawful to curse anyone. Objection 2: Further, all are bound to bless God, according to Dan. 3:82, "O ye sons of men, bless the Lord." Now the same mouth cannot both bless God and curse man, as proved in the third chapter of James. Therefore no man may lawfully curse <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa_theologica/whether_it_is_lawful_to_13.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Saint Thomas Aquinas—</span><span class="citation2">Summa Theologica</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/the_journal_of_john_wesley/wesley_and_his_barber.htm">Wesley and his Barber</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Thursday, April 11 (Bolton).--The barber who shaved me said, "Sir, I praise God on your behalf. When you were at Bolton last, I was one of the most eminent drunkards in all the town; but I came to listen at the window, and God struck me to the heart. I then earnestly prayed for power against drinking; and God gave me more than I asked: He took away the very desire of it. Yet I felt myself worse and worse, till on April 5 last, I could hold out no longer. I knew I must drop into hell that moment unless <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/wesley/the_journal_of_john_wesley/wesley_and_his_barber.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">John Wesley—</span><span class="citation2">The Journal of John Wesley</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/job/3-11.htm">Job 3:11 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/job/3-11.htm">Job 3:11 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/job/3-11.htm">Job 3:11 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/job/3-11.htm">Job 3:11 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/job/3-11.htm">Job 3:11 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/job/3-11.htm">Job 3:11 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/job/3-11.htm">Job 3:11 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/3-10.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 3:10"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 3:10" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/3-12.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 3:12"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 3:12" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/job/3-11.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>