Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

Bible References

It shut not

Job 10:18
“Why did You bring me out of the womb?
I should have died and never been seen.
Genesis 20:18
for the Lord had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household on account of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
Genesis 29:31
When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was unable to conceive.
1 Samuel 1:5
But he gave a double portion to Hannah, for he loved her even though the Lord had kept her from conceiving.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Jeremiah 20:17
because he didn’t kill me in the womb
so that my mother might have been my grave,
her womb eternally pregnant.

Hid

Job 6:2
If only my grief could be weighed
and my devastation placed with it in the scales.
Job 10:1
I am disgusted with my life.
I will express my complaint
and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 23:2
Today also my complaint is bitter.
His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
Ecclesiastes 11:10
Remove sorrow from your heart,
and put away pain from your flesh,
because youth and the prime of life are fleeting.

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