Job 3:10
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10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb,
nor hide trouble from my eyes.
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
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3 If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that (A)the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life's (B)good things, and he also has no (C)burial, I say that (D)a stillborn child is better off than he. 4 For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered. 5 Moreover, it has not (E)seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds (F)rest rather than he.
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Jeremiah 20:17
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17 (A)because he did not kill me in the womb;
so my mother would have been my grave,
and her womb forever great.
Ecclesiastes 11:10
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10 Remove vexation from your heart, and (A)put away pain[a] from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
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- Ecclesiastes 11:10 Or evil
Job 23:2
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- Job 23:2 Or defiant
Job 10:1
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Job Continues: A Plea to God
10 “I (A)loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my (B)complaint;
I will speak in (C)the bitterness of my soul.
Job 6:2-3
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2 “Oh that my vexation were weighed,
and all my calamity laid in the balances!
3 For then it would be heavier than (A)the sand of the sea;
therefore my words have been rash.
1 Samuel 1:5
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5 But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb.[a]
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- 1 Samuel 1:5 Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain. Septuagint And, although he loved Hannah, he would give Hannah only one portion, because the Lord had closed her womb
Genesis 29:31
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Jacob's Children
31 When the Lord saw that Leah was (A)hated, (B)he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
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Genesis 20:18
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18 For the Lord (A)had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
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Job 10:18-19
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18 (A)“Why did you bring me out from the womb?
Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
19 (B)and were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
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