10 Bible Verses about Regretting Birth
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Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.