10 Bible Verses about Regretting Birth

Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,

Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.

Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.

Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.

Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

Their answer was: You came to birth through sin; do you make yourself our teacher? And they put him out of the Synagogue.

A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.