The Morning Psalm

Job 3:11

King James Version

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

Job 3:11 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,

About this book

The Book of Job — summary, themes & key verses

Faith in suffering — the ancient question of why the innocent suffer, and where God is in it.

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