Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Job 3:10 stands in the opening part of Job that sets forth the great problems of overruling providence, sin, and suffering, in which God disciplines Job by bringing him through the fire of affliction. In that setting his three friends charge him with sin and declare that his sufferings are because of sin. The verse expresses his despair and grief that the doors of the womb were not shut to prevent his birth, so that his eyes were left to see sorrow and suffering. It grieves that the night of his conception and birth did not prevent his life from beginning and the suffering he now sees. As part of Job's response to great affliction it shows that trouble can deeply disturb even a patient person's heart, and it warns against misjudging fellow sufferers in the same way the friends misjudged Job.
Job 3:10 stands in the opening part of Job that sets forth the great problems of overruling providence, sin, and suffering, in which God disciplines Job by bringing him through the fire of affliction. In that setting his three friends charge him with sin and declare that his sufferings are because of sin. The verse expresses his despair and grief that the doors of the womb were not shut to prevent his birth, so that his eyes were left to see sorrow and suffering. It grieves that the night of his conception and birth did not prevent his life from beginning and the suffering he now sees. As part of Job's response to great affliction it shows that trouble can deeply disturb even a patient person's heart, and it warns against misjudging fellow sufferers in the same way the friends misjudged Job.