and said, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn thither again. The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; now blessed be the name of the LORD."

because it shut not up the womb that bare me. For then should these sorrows have been hid from mine eyes.

"Alas, why died I not in the birth? Why did not I perish, as soon as I came out of my mother's womb?

Wherefore hast thou brought me out of my mother's womb? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seen me.

He that fashioned me in my mother's womb, made he not him also? Were we not both shapen alike in our mother's bodies?

For mercy grew up with me from my youth, and compassion from my mother's womb.

Who shut the sea with doors, when it brake forth as a child out of his mother's womb?

Out of whose womb came the ice? Who hath gendered the coldness of the air?