10 Bible Verses about Regretting Birth
Most Relevant Verses
"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'
"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
Cursed is the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me.
"'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?" They threw him out.
A good name is better than fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one's birth.
