Verse 17

because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

Referenced Verses

• Job 10:18-19 : 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me. 19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
• Job 3:10-11 : 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes. 11 Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
• Job 3:16 : 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
• Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he: