Job 3:11

Bible in Basic English 1965

Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

Cross References

Job 3:10

Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

Job 3:12

Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?

Psalm 58:8

Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

Psalm 71:6

You have been my support from the day of my birth; you took me out of my mother's body; my praise will be ever of you.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.

Isaiah 46:3

Give ear to me, O family of Jacob, and all the rest of the people of Israel, who have been supported by me from their birth, and have been my care from their earliest days:

Jeremiah 15:10

Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.

Jeremiah 20:17

Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.

Hosea 9:14

O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.