Verse 17

Because he slew{H4191}{(H8790)} me not from the womb{H7358}; or that my mother{H517} might have been my grave{H6913}, and her womb{H7358} to be always{H5769} great{H2030} with me.

Referenced Verses

• Job 10:18-19 : 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth{H3318}{(H8689)} out of the womb{H7358}? Oh that I had given up the ghost{H1478}{(H8799)}, and no eye{H5869} had seen{H7200}{(H8799)} me! 19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried{H2986}{(H8714)} from the womb{H990} to the grave{H6913}.
• Job 3:10-11 : 10 Because it shut not up{H5462}{(H8804)} the doors{H1817} of my mother's womb{H990}, nor hid{H5641}{(H8686)} sorrow{H5999} from mine eyes{H5869}. 11 Why died{H4191}{(H8799)} I not from the womb{H7358}? why did I not give up the ghost{H1478}{(H8799)} when I came out{H3318}{(H8804)} of the belly{H990}?
• Job 3:16 : 16 Or as an hidden{H2934}{(H8803)} untimely birth{H5309} I had not been; as infants{H5768} which never saw{H7200}{(H8804)} light{H216}.
• Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man{H376} beget{H3205}{(H8686)} an hundred{H3967} children, and live{H2421}{(H8799)} many{H7227} years{H8141}, so that the days{H3117} of his years{H8141} be many{H7227}, and his soul{H5315} be not filled{H7646}{(H8799)} with good{H2896}, and also that he have no burial{H6900}; I say{H559}{(H8804)}, that an untimely birth{H5309} is better{H2896} than he.