Job 3:11

New King James Version

“Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not perish when I came from the womb?

Cross References

Job 3:10

Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

Job 3:12

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?

Psalm 58:8

Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes, Like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

Psalm 71:6

By You I have been upheld from birth; You are He who took me out of my mother’s womb. My praise shall be continually of You.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

Therefore I praised the dead who were already dead, More than the living who are still alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

Yet, better than both is he who has never existed, Who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he—

Ecclesiastes 6:5

Though it has not seen the sun or known anything, this has more rest than that man,

Isaiah 46:3

“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, Who have been upheld by Me from birth, Who have been carried from the womb:

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, That you have borne me, A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent for interest, Nor have men lent to me for interest. Every one of them curses me.

Jeremiah 20:17

Because he did not kill me from the womb, That my mother might have been my grave, And her womb always enlarged with me.

Hosea 9:14

Give them, O Lord— What will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb And dry breasts!