Job 3:11

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

“Why did I not die at birth, come forth from the womb and expire?

Cross References

Job 3:10

because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, and hide trouble from my eyes.

Job 3:12

Why were there knees to receive me, or breasts for me to suck?

Psalm 58:8

Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime; like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.

Psalm 71:6

Upon you I have leaned from my birth; it was you who took me from my mother's womb. My praise is continually of you.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

And I thought the dead, who have already died, more fortunate than the living, who are still alive;

Ecclesiastes 4:3

but better than both is the one who has not yet been, and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may beget a hundred children, and live many years; but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life's good things, or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

moreover it has not seen the sun or known anything; yet it finds rest rather than he.

Isaiah 46:3

Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from your birth, carried from the womb;

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.

Jeremiah 20:17

because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.

Hosea 9:14

Give them, O Lord— what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.