10 Bible Verses about Regretting Birth
Most Relevant Verses
"Let [the] day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man-child is conceived.'
"Why did I not die at birth? [Why] did I [not] come forth from [the] womb and expire?
Cursed be [the] day [on] which I was born, let not the day [on] which my mother gave birth to me be blessed.
Woe to me, my mother, that you gave birth to me, a man of contention and quarreling {to the whole land}. I have not lent out and {I have not borrowed}. All of them [are] cursing me.
So why did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have passed away, {and no eye should have seen me}.
{Why} did I come out from [the] womb, to see toil, and sorrow, and [to] {end my days in shame}?
They answered and said to him, "You were born completely in sin, and are you attempting to teach us?" And they threw him out.
A good name [is] better than precious ointment, and the day of death [is better] than the day of one's birth.
