Ecclesiastes 4:3
But better off than either of them is the one who has not yet been born, who has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.
Luke 23:29
Job 3:10-16
Because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hide trouble from my eyes.
Job 3:22
Who rejoice exceedingly,
And rejoice when they find the grave?
Job 10:18-19
‘Why then did You bring me out of the womb?
Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
Psalm 55:6-11
And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest.
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works which have been done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity, a futile grasping and chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun caused me only great sorrow; because all is futility and chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he is not respected and is not given a proper burial [he is not laid to rest in the sepulcher of his fathers], then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,
Jeremiah 9:2-3
Oh that I had in the wilderness
A lodging place (a mere shelter) for wayfaring men,
That I might leave my people
And go away from them!
For they are all adulterers [worshiping idols instead of the Lord],
[They are] an assembly of treacherous men [of weak character, men without integrity].
Jeremiah 20:17-18
Because he did not kill me before my birth,
So that my mother might have been my grave,
And her womb always pregnant.
Matthew 24:19
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Because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hide trouble from my eyes.
‘Why then did You bring me out of the womb?
Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
Because he did not kill me before my birth,
So that my mother might have been my grave,
And her womb always pregnant.
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And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest.
Oh that I had in the wilderness
A lodging place (a mere shelter) for wayfaring men,
That I might leave my people
And go away from them!
For they are all adulterers [worshiping idols instead of the Lord],
[They are] an assembly of treacherous men [of weak character, men without integrity].