10 Bible Verses about Regretting Birth
Most Relevant Verses
“Let the day perish on which I was to be born,
And the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
“Why did I not die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?
Cursed be the day when I was born;
Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!
Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me
As a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land!
I have not lent, nor have men lent money to me,
Yet everyone curses me.
‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb?
Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!
Why did I ever come forth from the womb
To look on trouble and sorrow,
So that my days have been spent in shame?
They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?” So they put him out.
A good name is better than a good ointment,
And the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth.
