Job 3:11

Tree of Life Version

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

Cross References

Job 3:10

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

Job 3:12

Why did the knees welcome me, and breasts that I might nurse?

Psalm 58:8

Let them flow away like water that runs off. When he bends his bow, let the arrows be cut off.

Psalm 71:6

From my birth I have leaned on You. You took me out of my mother’s womb. My praise is always about You.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

So I considered the dead, who are already dead, more fortunate than the living, who are still alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

Yet better than both is one who has not yet been, who has never seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Even if a man should father a hundred children and live many years, however many the days of his years may be, yet his soul is never satisfied with his prosperity and he does not have a proper burial, then I say that it is better for the stillborn than him.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

though it has never seen or experienced the sun, it has more rest than the other.

Isaiah 46:3

“Listen to Me, house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, borne by Me from birth, carried from the womb.

Jeremiah 15:10

Oy to me, my mother, that you gave birth to me— a man of strife and conflict to all the land! I did not lend or borrow, yet everyone curses me.

Jeremiah 20:17

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

Hosea 9:14

Give them, Adonai, what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dried up breasts.