Jeremiah 20:17
New King James Version
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.
Job 10:18-19
New King James Version
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.
Job 3:10-11
New King James Version
10 Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.
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- Job 3:11 expire
Ecclesiastes 6:3
New King James Version
3 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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- Ecclesiastes 6:3 Or miscarriage
Job 3:16
New King James Version
16 Or why was I not hidden (A)like a stillborn child,
Like infants who never saw light?
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