Job 3:11

A Conservative Version

Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Cross References

Isaiah 46:3

Hearken to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne [by me] from their birth, who have been carried from the womb.

Hosea 9:14

Give them, O LORD--what will thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that thou have bore me, a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, nor have men lent to me, [yet] every one of them curses me.

Psalm 71:6

By thee I have been held up from the womb. Thou are he who took me out of my mother's bowels. My praise shall be continually of thee.

Psalm 58:8

as a snail which melts and passes away, [as] the untimely birth of a woman, that has not seen the sun.

Job 3:10

Because it did not shut up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

Job 3:12

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

Ecclesiastes 4:2

Therefore I praised the dead who have long been dead more than the living who are yet alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

Yea, better than them both [is] him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Jeremiah 20:17

because he did not kill me from the womb, and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man begets a hundred sons, and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it, this [one] has rest rather than the other.