Job 3:10
New Living Translation
10 Curse that day for failing to shut my mother’s womb,
for letting me be born to see all this trouble.
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
New Living Translation
3 A man might have a hundred children and live to be very old. But if he finds no satisfaction in life and doesn’t even get a decent burial, it would have been better for him to be born dead. 4 His birth would have been meaningless, and he would have ended in darkness. He wouldn’t even have had a name, 5 and he would never have seen the sun or known of its existence. Yet he would have had more peace than in growing up to be an unhappy man.
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Jeremiah 20:17
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17 because he did not kill me at birth.
Oh, that I had died in my mother’s womb,
that her body had been my grave!
Ecclesiastes 11:10
New Living Translation
10 So refuse to worry, and keep your body healthy. But remember that youth, with a whole life before you, is meaningless.
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Job 23:2
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2 “My complaint today is still a bitter one,
and I try hard not to groan aloud.
Job 10:1
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Job Frames His Plea to God
10 “I am disgusted with my life.
Let me complain freely.
My bitter soul must complain.
Job 6:2-3
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2 “If my misery could be weighed
and my troubles be put on the scales,
3 they would outweigh all the sands of the sea.
That is why I spoke impulsively.
1 Samuel 1:5
New Living Translation
5 And though he loved Hannah, he would give her only one choice portion[a] because the Lord had given her no children.
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- 1:5 Or And because he loved Hannah, he would give her a choice portion. The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.
Genesis 29:31
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Jacob’s Many Children
31 When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to have children, but Rachel could not conceive.
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Genesis 20:18
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18 For the Lord had caused all the women to be infertile because of what happened with Abraham’s wife, Sarah.
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Job 10:18-19
New Living Translation
18 “‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb?
Why didn’t you let me die at birth?
19 It would be as though I had never existed,
going directly from the womb to the grave.
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