Job 3:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“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

From my birth I have leaned upon you, my protector since my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

And I commended the dead, who have already died, more 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 father 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 pregnant.

Hosea 9:14

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