Jeremiah 20:17


Because he did not kill me before my birth,
So that my mother might have been my grave,
And her womb always pregnant.

Job 3:10-11


Because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hide trouble from my eyes.

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!

Job 3:16


“Or like a miscarriage which is hidden and put away, I would not exist,
Like infants who never saw light.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

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,

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Summary

Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

Bible References

He slew

Job 3:10

Because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hide trouble from my eyes.
Job 10:18

‘Why then did You bring me out of the womb?
Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
Ecclesiastes 6:3
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,