Jeremiah 20:17
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17 because he did not kill me in the womb;
so my mother would have been my grave
and her womb forever pregnant.(A)
Job 10:18-19
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18 “ ‘Why did you bring me forth from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me(A)
19 and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
Job 3:10-11
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10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb
and hide trouble from my eyes.
11 “Why did I not die at birth,
come forth from the womb and expire?(A)
Ecclesiastes 6:3
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3 A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.(A)
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Job 3:16
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16 Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child,
like an infant that never sees the light?(A)
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