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Job 3:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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For the Lord had closed fast all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

“Today also my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.

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

Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but have none; may it not see the eyelids of the morning—

Banish anxiety from your mind, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

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

but to Hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb.