Verse 17

Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb [to be] always great [with me].

Referenced Verses

• Job 10:18-19 : 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! 19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
• Job 3:10-11 : 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. 11 ¶ Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
• Job 3:16 : 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
• Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he.