Job 3:11
Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
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- Job 10:18-19 : 18 An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me! 19 I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!
- Ps 22:9-9 : 9 Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother’s breasts. 10 I have been dependent on you since birth; from the time I came out of my mother’s womb you have been my God.
- Ps 58:8 : 8 Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun!
- Ps 71:6 : 6 I have leaned on you since birth; you pulled me from my mother’s womb. I praise you continually.
- Ps 139:13-16 : 13 Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I will give you thanks because your deeds are awesome and amazing. You knew me thoroughly; 15 my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.
- Isa 46:3 : 3 “Listen to me, O family of Jacob, all you who are left from the family of Israel, you who have been carried from birth, you who have been supported from the time you left the womb.
- Jer 15:10 : 10 Jeremiah Complains about His Lot and The Lord Responds I said,“Oh, mother, how I regret that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt.”
- Hos 9:14 : 14 Give them, O LORD– what will you give them? Give them wombs that miscarry, and breasts that cannot nurse!
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12Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
13For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
- Job 10:18-203 verses88%
18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!
19I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!
20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
- Job 3:9-102 verses88%
9Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,
10because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!
- Jer 20:17-182 verses84%
17For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.
18Why did I ever come forth from my mother’s womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.
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16Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?
- Job 3:2-32 verses78%
2Job spoke up and said:
3“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said,‘A man has been conceived!’
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14Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.
- Job 31:14-163 verses74%
14then what will I do when God confronts me in judgment; when he intervenes, how will I respond to him?
15Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?
16If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
- Ps 22:9-102 verses74%
9Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother’s breasts.
10I have been dependent on you since birth; from the time I came out of my mother’s womb you have been my God.
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6I have leaned on you since birth; you pulled me from my mother’s womb. I praise you continually.
- Job 7:15-162 verses71%
15so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.
16I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!
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13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
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5Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.
- Job 7:11-122 verses70%
11Job Remonstrates with God“Therefore, I will not refrain 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 the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?
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21I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.”
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1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
- Isa 38:10-112 verses69%
10“I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’
11“I thought,‘I will no longer see the LORD in the land of the living, I will no longer look on humankind with the inhabitants of the world.
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21He said,“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away. May the name of the LORD be blessed!”
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3The ropes of death tightened around me, the snares of Sheol confronted me. I was confronted with trouble and sorrow.
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15my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.
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3So now, LORD, kill me instead, because I would rather die than live!”
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13Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb.
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21And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”
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1The Brevity of Life“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.
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11What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?
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14Why do I put myself in peril, and take my life in my hands?
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5No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; you were thrown out into the open field because you were detested on the day you were born.
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18but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!
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3Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years– even if he lives a long, long time, but cannot enjoy his prosperity– even if he were to live forever– I would say,“A stillborn child is better off than he is!”
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23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
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15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?
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12Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb!”
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22He replied,“While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept because I thought,‘Perhaps the LORD will show pity and the child will live.
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19This woman’s child suffocated during the night when she rolled on top of him.
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8“Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,
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47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?
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29If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?