because it allowed me to be born and did not hide trouble from my eyes.
because he did not kill me before I was born. Then my mother would have been my grave; she would have stayed pregnant forever.
Don’t worry, and forget the troubles of your body, because youth and childhood are useless.
“My complaint is still bitter today. I groan because God’s heavy hand is on me.
“I hate my life, so I will complain without holding back; I will speak because I am so unhappy.
But Elkanah always gave a special share of the meat to Hannah, because he loved Hannah and because the Lord had kept her from having children.
When the Lord saw that Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah, he made it possible for Leah to have children, but not Rachel.
The Lord had kept all the women in Abimelech’s house from having children as a punishment on Abimelech for taking Abraham’s wife Sarah.
Let that day’s morning stars never appear; let it wait for daylight that never comes. Don’t let it see the first light of dawn,
“Why didn’t I die as soon as I was born? Why didn’t I die when I came out of the womb?