Verse 17

because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:18-19 : 18 "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, 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 didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. 11 "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
  • Job 3:16 : 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants who never saw light.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he: