Job 3:3

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

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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.
  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother gave birth to me not be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, 'A male child has been born to you,' and made him very glad. 16 May that man be like the cities the LORD overthrew without relenting. May he hear cries of distress in the morning and shouts of alarm at noon. 17 For he did not kill me in the womb, so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever pregnant. 18 Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?
  • 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.

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  • Job 3:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

    2 And Job answered and said:

  • Job 3:4-12
    9 verses
    83%

    4 May that day be darkness; may God above not seek it, nor let light shine upon it.

    5 Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.

    6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize it; let it not be joined to the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

    7 Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful voice enter it.

    8 Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled to rouse Leviathan.

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

    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?

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

  • Jer 20:14-18
    5 verses
    81%

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

    15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, 'A male child has been born to you,' and made him very glad.

    16 May that man be like the cities the LORD overthrew without relenting. May he hear cries of distress in the morning and shouts of alarm at noon.

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

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

  • Job 3:16-17
    2 verses
    78%

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

    17 There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    77%

    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.

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

  • Job 14:1
    73%

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

  • Job 7:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.

    4 When I lie down, I think, 'When will I get up?' But the night drags on, and I am filled with tossing till dawn.

  • Lam 3:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1 I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of His wrath.

    2 He has driven me away and brought me into darkness, not into light.

    3 Surely against me He turns His hand again and again, all day long.

  • Eccl 6:3-4
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    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.

    4 For it comes in vain and departs in darkness, and its name is covered in darkness.

  • Job 3:23
    70%

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

  • Job 1:21
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    21 He 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.'

  • Job 3:20
    69%

    20 Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in soul?

  • Job 23:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 Then Job answered and said:

    2 Even today my complaint is bitter; my suffering is heavier than my groaning.

  • 1 Kgs 3:19
    69%

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

  • Lam 3:6
    69%

    6 He has made me dwell in dark places, like those long dead.

  • Job 31:8
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    8 then may I sow, but another eat, and may my offspring be uprooted.

  • Job 23:17
    69%

    17 Yet I am not silenced by the darkness or by the deep gloom that covers my face.

  • Job 17:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12 They make night into day: ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the presence of darkness.

    13 If I hope for Sheol as my home, and I make my bed in darkness,

  • Ps 51:5
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    5 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

  • 1 Kgs 3:21
    68%

    21 When 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 15:14
    68%

    14 What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of a woman, that he could be righteous?

  • Jer 16:3
    68%

    3 For this is what the LORD says about the sons and daughters born in this place, as well as their mothers who bear them and their fathers who father them in this land:

  • Hos 13:13
    68%

    13 The pains of childbirth come for him, but he is an unwise son; when it is time, he does not come to the opening of the womb.

  • Job 25:4
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    4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?

  • Job 14:13
    68%

    13 If 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!

  • Isa 21:3
    68%

    3 Therefore 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.

  • Job 18:6
    68%

    6 The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.

  • Job 5:7
    68%

    7 But people are born to trouble, just as sparks fly upward.