Job 3:10

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

Genesis 20:18

for the Lord had securely closed the wombs of all [the women] in Abimelech’s household because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

Genesis 29:31

Now when the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He made her able to bear children, but Rachel was barren.

1 Samuel 1:5

But to Hannah he would give a double portion, because he loved Hannah, but the Lord had given her no children.

Job 6:2-3

“Oh, that my grief could actually be weighed
And placed in the balances together with my tragedy [to see if my grief is the grief of a coward]!

Job 10:1

“I am disgusted with my life and loathe it!
I will give free expression to my complaint;
I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

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 23:2

“Even today my complaint is contentious;
His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

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,

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Therefore, remove sorrow and anger from your heart and put away pain from your body, for childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.

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.

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