Job 3:11

New International Reader's Version

“Why didn’t I die when I was born? Why didn’t I die as I came out of my mother’s body?

Cross References

Job 3:10

It didn’t keep my mother from letting me be born. It didn’t keep my eyes from seeing trouble.

Job 3:12

Why was I placed on her knees? Why did her breasts give me milk?

Psalm 58:8

Let them be like a slug that melts away as it moves along. Let them be like a baby that is born dead and never sees the sun.

Psalm 71:6

From the time I was born I have depended on you. You brought me out of my mother’s body. I will praise you forever.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

Then I announced that those who have already died are happier than those who are still alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But someone who hasn’t been born yet is better off than the dead or the living. That’s because that person hasn’t seen the evil things that are done on earth.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man might have a hundred children. He might live a long time. But suppose he can’t enjoy his wealth. And suppose he isn’t buried in the proper way. Then it doesn’t matter how long he lives. I’m telling you that a baby that is born dead is better off than that man is.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

It didn’t even see the sun. It didn’t know anything at all. But it has more rest than that man does.

Isaiah 46:3

The Lord says, “Family of Jacob, listen to me. Pay attention, you people of Israel who are left alive. I have taken good care of you since your life began. I have carried you since you were born as a nation.

Jeremiah 15:10

My mother, I wish I had never been born! The whole land opposes me. They fight against me. I haven’t made loans to anyone. And I haven’t borrowed anything. But everyone curses me anyway.

Jeremiah 20:17

He should have killed me in my mother’s body. He should have made my mother my grave. He should have let her body stay large forever.

Hosea 9:14

Lord, what should you do to Ephraim’s people? Give them women whose babies die before they are born. Give them women whose breasts have no milk.