Job 3:11

New International Version

“Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?

Cross References

Job 3:10

for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.

Job 3:12

Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?

Psalm 58:8

May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along, like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.

Psalm 71:6

From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will ever praise you.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

And I declared that the dead, who had already died, are happier than the living, who are still alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man—

Isaiah 46:3

“Listen to me, you descendants of Jacob, all the remnant of the people of Israel, you whom I have upheld since your birth, and have carried since you were born.

Jeremiah 15:10

Alas, my mother, that you gave me birth, a man with whom the whole land strives and contends! I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

Jeremiah 20:17

For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever.

Hosea 9:14

Give them, Lord— what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.