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
So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me,
Genesis 20:18
since the LORD had made all the women barren in Abimelech's household on account of Abraham's wife Sarah.
Genesis 29:31
Later, the LORD noticed that Leah was being neglected, so he made her fertile, while Rachel remained childless.
1 Samuel 1:5
but he would give twice as much to Hannah because he loved her.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
A man might father a hundred children, and live for many years, so that the length of his life is long but if his life does not overflow with goodness, and he doesn't receive a proper burial, I maintain that stillborn children are better off than he is,
Jeremiah 20:17
because he didn't kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave and her womb forever pregnant.

Hid

Job 6:2
"If only my grief could be weighed; or my calamity piled together on a balance scale!
Job 10:1
"I am disgusted with living, so I'm going to talk about my complaint freely. I'll speak out from the bitterness of my soul.
Job 23:2
"I'm still complaining bitterly today; my hand is heavy because of groaning.
Ecclesiastes 11:10
Banish sorrow from your heart, and evil from your body, since both childhood and the prime of life are pointless.

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