Jeremiah 20:17
Why sluest thou not me assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe? or that my mother had ben my graue her selfe, that the byrth might not haue come out, but remayned still in her?
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- Job 10:18-19 : 18 Wherfore hast thou brought me out of the wombe? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seene me, 19 And that I were as though I had not ben, but brought from the wombe to the graue.
- Job 3:10-11 : 10 Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hyd sorowe from myne eyes. 11 Alas why died I not in the birth? why dyd not I perishe assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe?
- Job 3:16 : 16 Or why was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, either as young children which neuer sawe the light?
- Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget a hundred children, and lyue many yeres, so that his dayes are many in number, and yet can not enioy his good, neither be buryed: as for him I say, that vntymely birth is better then he.
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18 Wherefore came I foorth of my mothers wombe? to haue experience of labour and sorowe, and to leade my lyfe with shame?
- Job 3:10-123 verses84%
10 Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hyd sorowe from myne eyes.
11 Alas why died I not in the birth? why dyd not I perishe assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe?
12 Why set they me vpon their knees? why gaue they me sucke with their brestes?
- Job 10:17-204 verses83%
17 Thou bringest freshe witnesse against me, and thy wrath increasest thou vpon me: diuers and many are the plagues that I am in.
18 Wherfore hast thou brought me out of the wombe? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seene me,
19 And that I were as though I had not ben, but brought from the wombe to the graue.
20 Are not my dayes fewe? Let him then leaue of fro me, and let me a lone, that I may comfort my selfe a litle,
- Ps 22:9-102 verses77%
9 But thou art he that tokest me out of my mothers wombe: thou causedst me to trust in thee, suckyng my mothers breastes.
10 I haue ben left vnto thee euer since I was borne: thou art my God euen from my mothers wombe.
- Jer 20:14-163 verses77%
14 Cursed be the day wherein I was borne, vnhappy be the day wherein my mother brought me foorth.
15 Cursed be the man that brought my father the tidinges to make hym gald, saying, Thou hast begotten a sonne:
16 Let it happen vnto that man, as to the cities whiche the Lorde turned vpsidedowne and repented not: Let hym heare crying in the morning, and at noone day lamentable howling.
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16 Or why was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, either as young children which neuer sawe the light?
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6 Through thee haue I ben mayntayned euer since I was borne: thou art he that toke me out of my mothers wombe, my praise shalbe alway of thee.
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18 (For from my youth it hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue ben guyde to the wydowe)
- Job 31:15-162 verses74%
15 He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shapen a like in our mothers bodies?
16 If I denied the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the wydow to wayte in vayne:
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13 For thou hast my reynes in thy possession: thou didst couer me in my mothers wombe.
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20 The pitifull man shall forget hym, he shalbe sweete to the wormes, he shalbe no more remembred, & his wickednesse shalbe broken as a tree.
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3 Let the day perishe wherin I was borne, and the night in the whiche it was sayd, There is a man childe conceaued.
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5 Beholde, I was ingendred in iniquitie: and in sinne my mother conceaued me.
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22 My neighbours that are rounde about me hast thou called as it were to a feast day, so that in the day of the lordes wrath none escaped, neither was any left behinde: those that I haue brought vp and nourished, hath myne enemie destroyed.
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13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, & keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past, and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me.
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17 Because I am not cut of before the darkenesse, neither hath he couered the cloude fro my face.
- Ps 139:15-162 verses71%
15 The substaunce of my body was not hyd from thee: when I was made in secrete and fashioned with distinct members in my mothers wombe.
16 Thyne eyes dyd see me when I was most imperfect: and in thy booke were written euery day of them wherin the partes of my body were shaped, and no one of them were knowen vnto thee.
- Job 17:13-153 verses71%
13 Though I tary neuer so much, yet the graue is my house, & I haue made my bed in the darke.
14 I saide to corruption, thou art my father, and to the wormes, you are my mother and my sister.
15 Where is then now my hope? or who hath considered the thing that I loke for?
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10 O mother, alas that thou euer didst beare me, a brawler and rebuker of the whole lande: though I neuer lent nor receaued vpon vsurie, yet all men speake euyll vpon me.
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1 Ye Isles hearken vnto me, and take heede ye people from farre: The Lord hath called me from my birth, and made mention of my name from my mothers wombe:
- 1 Kgs 3:20-212 verses70%
20 And she rose at midnight and toke my sonne from my syde while thyne handmayde slept, and layde it in her bosome, and put her dead childe in my bosome.
21 And when I rose in the mornyng to geue my chylde sucke, beholde it was dead: But when I had loked vpon it in the morning, beholde, it was not my sonne which I dyd beare.
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5 No eye pitied thee to do any of these thinges for thee, for to haue compassion vpon thee: but thou wast vtterly cast out vpon the fielde in contempt of thy person in the day of thy byrth.
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13 His archers compasse me rounde about, he woundeth my raines, and doth not spare, my bowels hath he powred vpon the grounde.
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18 The Lorde hath greatly chastened me: but he hath not geuen me ouer vnto death.
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20 Consider (O Lorde) howe I am troubled, my wombe is disquieted, my heart turneth about in me, and I am full of heauinesse, because I rebelled stubburnly: the sworde hurteth me without, and within I am lyke vnto death.
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19 But I am as a meeke lambe, an oxe that is caryed away to be slayne, not knowing that they had deuised suche a counsell against me saying, We wyll destroy his meate with wood, and driue him out of the lande of the liuing, that his name shall neuer be thought vpon.
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12 Oh, let her not be as one dead, of who the fleshe is halfe consumed when he commeth out of his mothers whom.
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3 For when I my selfe was my fathers deare sonne, and tenderly beloued of my mother:
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13 Therfore shall sorowes come vpon him as vpon a woman that trauayleth: an vndiscrete sonne is he, els woulde he not stande styll at the tyme of birth of children.
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19 Thy seede also had ben lyke as the sande in the sea, and the fruite of thy body lyke the grauell stones therof: His name shoulde not be rooted out, nor destroyed before me.
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18 O earth couer not thou my blood, and let my crying finde no roome.
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1 My breath is corrupt, my dayes are shortened, I am harde at deathes doore.
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16 Wheras I neuerthelesse obediently folowed thee as a sheephearde, & haue not vncalled taken this office vpon me, this knowest thou well: my wordes also were ryght before thee.
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15 That my soule wisheth rather to perishe and die, then my bones to remayne.
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3 Lest I strip her naked, and set her euen as she came into the worlde, and make her as a wyldernesse, and as a drye lande, and slay her for thyrste.
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20 For he brought me out into roomth: he deliuered me, because he had a fauour vnto me.
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27 Whom I my selfe shall see, and myne eyes shall beholde, and none other for me, though my raines are consumed within me.