17 (A)Because he did not kill me from the womb,
That my mother might have been my grave,
And her womb always enlarged with me.

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18 ‘Why(A) then have You brought me out of the womb?
Oh, that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
19 I would have been as though I had not been.
I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.

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10 Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

11 “Why(A) did I not die at birth?
Why did I not [a]perish when I came from the womb?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 3:11 expire

If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or (A)indeed he has no burial, I say that (B)a [a]stillborn child is better than he—

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 6:3 Or miscarriage

16 Or why was I not hidden (A)like a stillborn child,
Like infants who never saw light?

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