Job 3:11

New English Translation

“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?

Cross References

Job 3:10

because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!

Job 3:12

Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?

Psalm 58:8

Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun!

Psalm 71:6

I have leaned on you since birth; you pulled me from my mother’s womb. I praise you continually.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

So I considered those who are dead and gone more fortunate than those who are still alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But better than both is the one who has not been born and has not seen the evil things that are done on earth.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years – even if he lives a long, long time, but cannot enjoy his prosperity – even if he were to live forever – I would say, “A stillborn child is better off than he is!”

Ecclesiastes 6:5

though it never saw the light of day nor knew anything, yet it has more rest than that man –

Isaiah 46:3

“Listen to me, O family of Jacob, all you who are left from the family of Israel, you who have been carried from birth, you who have been supported from the time you left the womb.

Jeremiah 15:10

I said, “Oh, mother, how I regret that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt.”

Jeremiah 20:17

For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.

Hosea 9:14

Give them, O Lord – what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse!