Job 3:11
New Living Translation
11 “Why wasn’t I born dead?
Why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?
Isaiah 46:3
New Living Translation
3 “Listen to me, descendants of Jacob,
all you who remain in Israel.
I have cared for you since you were born.
Yes, I carried you before you were born.
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.
Hosea 9:14
New Living Translation
14 O Lord, what should I request for your people?
I will ask for wombs that don’t give birth
and breasts that give no milk.
Jeremiah 15:10
New Living Translation
Jeremiah’s Complaint
10 Then I said,
“What sorrow is mine, my mother.
Oh, that I had died at birth!
I am hated everywhere I go.
I am neither a lender who threatens to foreclose
nor a borrower who refuses to pay—
yet they all curse me.”
Psalm 139:13-16
New Living Translation
13 You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body
and knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.
15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,
as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.
16 You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed.
Psalm 71:6
New Living Translation
6 Yes, you have been with me from birth;
from my mother’s womb you have cared for me.
No wonder I am always praising you!
Psalm 58:8
New Living Translation
8 May they be like snails that dissolve into slime,
like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.
Psalm 22:9-10
New Living Translation
9 Yet you brought me safely from my mother’s womb
and led me to trust you at my mother’s breast.
10 I was thrust into your arms at my birth.
You have been my God from the moment I was born.
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