Job 3:10
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10 Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
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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— 4 for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness. 5 Though it has not seen the sun or known anything, this has more rest than that man,
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- Ecclesiastes 6:3 Or miscarriage
Jeremiah 20:17
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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.
Ecclesiastes 11:10
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10 Therefore remove [a]sorrow from your heart,
And (A)put away evil from your flesh,
(B)For childhood and [b]youth are vanity.
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- Ecclesiastes 11:10 vexation
- Ecclesiastes 11:10 Prime of life
Job 23:2
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- Job 23:2 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX, Syr. His
Job 10:1
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Job: I Would Plead with God
10 “My (A)soul loathes my life;
I will [a]give free course to my complaint,
(B)I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
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- Job 10:1 Lit. leave on myself
Job 6:2-3
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2 “Oh, that my grief were fully weighed,
And my calamity laid with it on the scales!
3 For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea—
Therefore my words have been rash.
1 Samuel 1:5
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5 But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, (A)although the Lord had closed her womb.
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Genesis 29:31
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The Children of Jacob
31 When the Lord (A)saw that Leah was [a]unloved, He (B)opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
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- Genesis 29:31 Lit. hated
Genesis 20:18
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18 for the Lord (A)had closed up 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 ‘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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