Job 3:10

Tree of Life Version

For it did not shut the doors of the womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

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since he did not kill me in the womb, so my mother might have been my grave—her womb filled forever.

So banish anxiety from your heart and cast off distress from your body, for youth and prime of life are fleeting.

“Even today my complaint is rebellious; His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

“I loathe my own life; I will give full vent to my complaint; I will speak out of the bitterness of my soul.

but to Hannah he would give only one portion—even though he loved Hannah—for Adonai had closed her womb.

Now Adonai saw that Leah was unloved, so he opened her womb; but Rachel was unable to conceive.

For Adonai had completely locked up every womb in Abimelech’s household because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

May its morning stars be darkened; may it hope for light but have none— may it never see the eyelids of dawn.

Why did I not die at birth and expire as I exited the womb?