Job 3:12

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

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  • Gen 30:3 : 3 Then she said, 'Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me, and through her, I too can build a family.'
  • Isa 66:12 : 12 For this is what the Lord says: 'I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like a flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her hip, and you will be bounced on her knees.'
  • Gen 50:23 : 23 He saw the third generation of Ephraim’s children, and also the children of Machir son of Manasseh were placed at birth on Joseph’s knees.
  • Ezek 16:4-5 : 4 On the day you were born, your umbilical cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths. 5 No 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.

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  • Job 3:10-11
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    10Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

    11Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?

  • Job 10:18-20
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    81%

    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.

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    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
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    16Or why was I not like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw the light?

  • Job 3:13
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    13For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept, then I would be at rest.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    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.

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

  • Song 8:1
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    1Oh, that you were like a brother to me, one who nursed at my mother's breasts! If I found you outside, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.

  • Job 31:14-16
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    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,

  • Job 10:10
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    10Did You not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?

  • Job 6:10-13
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    10It would still be my comfort— I would even exult in the midst of unrelenting pain— for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

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

    12Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh made of bronze?

    13Indeed, there is no help in me, and ability has been driven from me.

  • Job 13:14
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    14Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hands?

  • Lam 4:4
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    4The tongue of the nursing infant clings to the roof of its mouth because of thirst. The children beg for bread, but no one gives it to them.

  • 1 Kgs 3:20-21
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    20So she got up in the middle of the night, took my son from my side while I was asleep, and laid him in her arms. She then placed her dead son in my arms.

    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 21:24
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    24His sides full of milk, and the marrow of his bones moist.

  • Ps 71:6
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    6I have relied on you from birth; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.

  • Job 31:18
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    18but from my youth I raised him as a father would, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

  • Job 7:15
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    15I prefer strangling and death rather than this body of mine.

  • Job 14:13
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    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!

  • Job 7:12
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    12Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that you put me under guard?

  • Ps 139:13
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    13For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb.

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    21When my heart was embittered and my spirit was pierced within me,

  • Job 3:23-24
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    23To a man whose path is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

    24For my sighing comes before my food, and my groanings pour out like water.

  • Ps 139:15
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    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.

  • Isa 21:3
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    3Therefore my body is filled with trembling; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I am bent over by what I heard; I am dismayed by what I saw.

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    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 17:15
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    15then where is my hope? And who can see any hope for me?

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

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    22then let my shoulder fall from its socket, and let my arm be broken off at the joint.

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    2Surely I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a weaned child is my soul within me.

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

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    4He has worn away my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.

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

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    2Even the strength of their hands is useless to me; their vigor has perished.

  • Gen 21:7
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    7And she added, 'Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.'

  • Job 23:3
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    3If only I knew where to find him, so that I might come to his dwelling.