Job 3:11

Easy To Read Version

Why didn’t I die when I was born?\par Why didn’t I die at birth?\par

Cross References

Job 3:10

Why? Because that night didn’t stop me\par from being born.\par That night didn’t stop me\par from seeing these troubles.\par

Job 3:12

Why did my mother hold me\par on her knees?\par Why did my mother’s breasts feed me?\par

Psalm 58:8

May they be like snails melting away\par as they move.\par May they be like a baby\par that was born dead\par and never saw the light of day.\par

Psalm 71:6

I depended on you even before I was born.I relied on you even in my mother’s body.I have always prayed to you.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

I decided that things are better for people that have died than for people that are still alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

And things are even better \{for people that die at birth! Why? Because\} they never saw the evil that is done in this world. {\cf2\super [20]}

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A person might live a long time. And that person might have 100 children. But if that person is not satisfied with those good things, and if no one remembers him after his death, then I say that a baby that dies at birth is better off than that man.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

That baby never saw the sun. That baby never knew anything. But that baby finds more rest than the man that never enjoyed the things God gave him.

Isaiah 46:3

“Family of Jacob, listen to me! All you people from Israel that are still alive, listen! I have been carrying you. I have carried you since the time you were in your mother’s body.

Jeremiah 15:10

Mother, I (Jeremiah) am sorry\par that you gave birth to me.\par I am the person that must accuse\par and criticize the whole land.\par I have not loaned or borrowed anything.\par But every person curses me.\par

Jeremiah 20:17

Why? Because that man did not kill me\par while I was in my mother’s body.\par If he had killed me at that time,\par my mother would have been my grave,\par and I would never have been born.\par

Hosea 9:14

Lord, give them what you will. Give them a womb that loses babies, give them breasts that can’t give milk.