Job 3:11
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11 “Why did I not die at birth,
come forth from the womb and expire?(A)
Isaiah 46:3
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3 Listen to me, O house of Jacob,
all the remnant of the house of Israel,
who have been borne by me from your birth,
carried from the womb;(A)
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.
Hosea 9:14
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14 Give them, O Lord—
what will you give?
Give them a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.
Jeremiah 15:10
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Jeremiah Complains Again and Is Reassured
10 Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.(A)
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Psalm 139:13-16
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13 For it was you who formed my inward parts;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.(A)
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
that I know very well.(B)
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.(C)
16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.
In your book were written
all the days that were formed for me,
when none of them as yet existed.[a]
Footnotes
- 139.16 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 71:6
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6 From my birth I have leaned upon you,
my protector since my mother’s womb.[a]
My praise is continually of you.(A)
Footnotes
- 71.6 Q ms Gk Jerome: MT from my mother’s womb you took me
Psalm 58:8
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8 Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime,
like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.(A)
Psalm 22:9-10
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9 Yet it was you who took me from the womb;
you kept me safe on my mother’s breast.(A)
10 On you I was cast from my birth,
and since my mother bore me you have been my God.(B)
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