Verse 17

For he did not kill me in the womb, so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever pregnant.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:18-19 : 18 Why then did You bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died and no eye had seen me. 19 If only I had never existed, carried straight from the womb to the grave.
  • Job 3:10-11 : 10 Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes. 11 Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?
  • Job 3:16 : 16 Or why was I not like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw the light?
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 A man may father a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy life's good things and receives no proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.