Job 3:11

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Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?

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  • 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.
  • Ps 22:9-9 : 9 'Commit yourself to the LORD; let Him deliver him! Let Him rescue him, since He delights in him.' 10 Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me secure on my mother’s breasts.
  • Ps 58:8 : 8 May they vanish like water that flows away; when they aim their arrows, may they be blunted.
  • Ps 71:6 : 6 I have relied on you from birth; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.
  • Ps 139:13-16 : 13 For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb. 14 I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be.
  • Isa 46:3 : 3 Listen to Me, house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, you who have been carried by Me from the womb, lifted up from birth.
  • Jer 15:10 : 10 Woe to me, my mother, that you gave birth to me—a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
  • Hos 9:14 : 14 Give them, LORD—what will You give? Give them wombs that miscarry and breasts that are dry.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 3:12-13
    2 verses
    89%

    12Why were there knees to receive me, or breasts that I should nurse?

    13For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept, then I would be at rest.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    88%

    18Why then did You bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died and no eye had seen me.

    19If only I had never existed, carried straight from the womb to the grave.

    20Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

  • Job 3:9-10
    2 verses
    88%

    9Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning.

    10Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

  • Jer 20:17-18
    2 verses
    84%

    17For he did not kill me in the womb, so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever pregnant.

    18Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?

  • Job 3:16
    79%

    16Or why was I not like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw the light?

  • Job 3:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2And Job answered and said:

    3Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man is conceived.'

  • Jer 20:14
    74%

    14Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother gave birth to me not be blessed.

  • Job 31:14-16
    3 verses
    74%

    14what will I do when God confronts me? What will I answer when He calls me to account?

    15Did not the same One who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same God form us both within our mothers?

    16If I have withheld the desires of the poor or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

  • Ps 22:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9'Commit yourself to the LORD; let Him deliver him! Let Him rescue him, since He delights in him.'

    10Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me secure on my mother’s breasts.

  • Ps 71:6
    71%

    6I have relied on you from birth; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.

  • Job 7:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15I prefer strangling and death rather than this body of mine.

    16I despise my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

  • Job 14:13
    71%

    13If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me!

  • Ps 51:5
    70%

    5For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

  • Job 7:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11Therefore, I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

    12Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you put me under guard?

  • 1 Kgs 3:21
    70%

    21When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. But when I looked more closely at him in the morning light, I saw that it was not the son I had borne.

  • Job 17:1
    70%

    1My spirit is broken, my days have faded away, and the grave is ready for me.

  • Isa 38:10-11
    2 verses
    69%

    10I said, "In the prime of my life I must go through the gates of Sheol; I am deprived of the rest of my years."

    11I said, "I will not see the LORD, the LORD, in the land of the living; I will no longer look on humanity or be with those who dwell in the world of the dead."

  • Job 1:21
    69%

    21He said, 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; may the name of the LORD be blessed.'

  • Ps 116:3
    69%

    3The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of Sheol came over me; I was overcome by distress and sorrow.

  • Ps 139:15
    69%

    15My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.

  • Jonah 4:3
    69%

    3Now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.

  • Ps 139:13
    69%

    13For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb.

  • Job 7:21
    69%

    21Why do you not pardon my offenses and forgive my sins? For I will soon lie down in the dust; you will search for me, but I will be no more.

  • Job 14:1
    69%

    1Man, born of a woman, is short-lived and full of trouble.

  • Job 6:11
    69%

    11What is my strength, that I should hope? What is my end, that I should prolong my life?

  • Job 13:14
    69%

    14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands?

  • Ezek 16:5
    68%

    5No eye looked on you with pity to do any of these things for you, out of compassion. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, for you were despised on the day you were born.

  • Job 31:18
    68%

    18but from my youth I raised him as a father would, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

  • Eccl 6:3
    68%

    3A 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.

  • Job 3:23
    68%

    23To a man whose path is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

  • Job 17:15
    68%

    15then where is my hope? And who can see any hope for me?

  • Num 12:12
    68%

    12Do not let her be like a stillborn infant coming from its mother's womb with its flesh half eaten away.'

  • 2 Sam 12:22
    68%

    22David answered, 'While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, 'Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let the child live.''

  • 1 Kgs 3:19
    68%

    19During the night, this woman's son died because she lay on him.

  • Job 38:8
    68%

    8Or who enclosed the sea with doors when it burst forth from the womb,

  • Ps 89:47
    68%

    47How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath keep burning like fire?

  • Job 9:29
    68%

    29Since I am already condemned, why should I labor in vain?