Job 10:18
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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)
Jeremiah 20:14-18
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14 Cursed be the day
on which I was born!
The day when my mother bore me,
let it not be blessed!(A)
15 Cursed be the man
who brought the news to my father, saying,
“A child is born to you, a son,”
making him very glad.(B)
16 Let that man be like the cities
that the Lord overthrew without pity;
let him hear a cry in the morning
and an alarm at noon,(C)
17 because he did not kill me in the womb;
so my mother would have been my grave
and her womb forever pregnant.(D)
18 Why did I come forth from the womb
to see toil and sorrow
and spend my days in shame?(E)
Matthew 26:24
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24 The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that one not to have been born.”
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Jeremiah 15:10
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Jeremiah Complains Again and Is Reassured
10 Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.(A)
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Job 14:10
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10 But mortals die and are laid low;
humans expire, and where are they?(A)
Job 11:20
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20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail;
all way of escape will be lost to them,
and their hope is to breathe their last.”(A)
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)
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