Job 3:10
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10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb
and hide trouble from my eyes.
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
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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) 4 For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered; 5 moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he.
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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)
Ecclesiastes 11:10
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10 Banish anxiety from your mind, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.(A)
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Job 23:2
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Job 10:1
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Job: I Loathe My Life
10 “I loathe my life;
I will give free utterance to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.(A)
Job 6:2-3
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2 “O that my vexation were weighed
and all my calamity laid in the balances!(A)
3 For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea;
therefore my words have been rash.(B)
1 Samuel 1:5
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5 but to Hannah he gave a double portion[a] because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb.(A)
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- 1.5 Syr: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Genesis 29:31
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31 When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.(A)
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Genesis 20:18
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18 For the Lord had closed fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.(A)
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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.
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