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becauseכִּיit did notלֹאshutסָגַרthe doorsדַּלְתֵיof my bellyבִטְנִיand hideוַיַּסְתֵּרsufferingעָמָלfrom my eyes.מֵעֵינָי
Job 3:10
Study it in the app“because it did not shut the doors of my belly and hide suffering from my eyes.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 3:10, word by word
- shutסָגַרsagar
shut
To bolt a door, or leave someone shut in with no way out.
Where else “sagar” appears- the doorsדַּלְתֵיdalte
door
The wooden or metal leaf that opens and shuts the entrance of a house or city.
Where else “dalte” appears- of my bellyבִטְנִvitni
belly
The belly; also one's innermost part.
Where else “vitni” appears- and hideיַּסְתֵּרyaster
hide
To put someone or something out of sight, to keep it safe or to flee.
Where else “yaster” appears- sufferingעָמָלamal
suffering
Pain one goes through, or harm done to others.
Where else “amal” appears- from my eyesעֵינָena
eye
The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.
Where else “ena” appears
Translation note
“My belly”: the belly in which I was, my mother’s. The Hebrew does not say who “did not shut”; he has been speaking of the day and the night of his birth.
The context
9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it hope for light and there be none, and may it not see the eyelids of the dawn,
10 · This verse (above)
11Why did I not die from the womb, come out from the belly and expire?