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Job 3:11

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Why did I not die in the womb? Having left the womb, why did I not immediately perish?

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For it did not close the doors of the womb that bore me, nor take away evils from my eyes.

Why was I received upon the knees? Why was I suckled at the breasts?

Behold, they will speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: "For who has heard us?"

He will descend like rain upon fleece, and like showers showering upon the earth.

And so, I praised the dead more than the living.

And happier than both of these, I judged him to be, who has not yet been born, and who has not yet seen the evils which are done under the sun.

If a man were to produce one hundred children, and to live for many years, and to attain to an age of many days, and if his soul were to make no use of the goods of his resources, and if he were lacking even a burial: concerning such a man, I declare that a miscarried child is better than he.

He has not seen the sun, nor recognized the difference between good and evil.

Listen to me, house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who are carried in my bosom, who were born from my womb.

"O my mother, woe to me! Why did you conceive me, a man of strife, a man of discord to all the earth? I have not lent money at interest, nor has anyone lent money at interest to me. Yet everyone is cursing me."

So let him be, who did not put me to death from the womb, so that my mother would have been my sepulcher, and her womb would have been my eternal resting place!

Give them, O Lord. What will you give them? Give them a womb without children, and dry breasts.




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