Job 3:10 Meaning and Explanation
“Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.”
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Read Full Chapter →Job blames that night for allowing his birth, which opened his eyes to the sorrow he now sees.
What Does Job 3:10 Mean?
Here Job gives the reason for all his cursing. The night is to blame, he says, because it did not close the doors of the womb but let him be born, and so brought him into a life where his eyes would one day behold this sorrow. His complaint is not really against the night but against the existence it made possible.
Job speaks as one who feels that birth itself led him into a grief he never asked for. The honesty is bracing, yet the doors of the womb belong to God, who forms each person in secret and knits them together with purpose. Even when we cannot see that purpose through our tears, Christ assures us that no life is an accident and no sorrow is wasted in the hands of the Father who loves us.
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What does Job 3:10 mean?
Job blames that night for allowing his birth, which opened his eyes to the sorrow he now sees.