Job 3:11

New Century Version

“Why didn’t I die as soon as I was born? Why didn’t I die when I came out of the womb?

Cross References

Job 3:10

because it allowed me to be born and did not hide trouble from my eyes.

Job 3:12

Why did my mother’s knees receive me, and my mother’s breasts feed me?

Psalm 58:8

Let them be like snails that melt as they move. Let them be like a child born dead who never saw the sun.

Psalm 71:6

I have depended on you since I was born; you helped me even on the day of my birth. I will always praise you.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

I decided that the dead are better off than the living.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But those who have never been born are better off still; they have not seen the evil that is done here on earth.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man might have a hundred children and live a long time, but what good is it if he can’t enjoy the good God gives him or have a proper burial? I say a baby born dead is better off than he is.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

That baby never saw the sun and never knew anything, but it finds more rest than that man.

Isaiah 46:3

“Family of Jacob, listen to me! All you people from Israel who are still alive, listen! I have carried you since you were born; I have taken care of you from your birth.

Jeremiah 15:10

Mother, I am sorry that you gave birth to me since I must accuse and criticize the whole land. I have not loaned or borrowed anything, but everyone curses me.

Jeremiah 20:17

because he did not kill me before I was born. Then my mother would have been my grave; she would have stayed pregnant forever.

Hosea 9:14

Lord, give them what they should have. What will you give them? Make their women unable to have children; give them dried-up breasts that cannot feed their babies.