10 Bible Verses about Regretting Birth

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.

"Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said, 'A man has been conceived!'

"Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?

Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.

I said, "Oh, mother, how I regret that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt."

"Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!

Why did I ever come forth from my mother's womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.

Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.

They replied, "You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?" So they threw him out.

A good reputation is better than precious perfume; likewise, the day of one's death is better than the day of one's birth.