Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

• Jer 20:14-18 : 14 Cursed be the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought news to my father, saying, A man-child is born to you; making him very glad. 16 Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn't repent: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime; 17 because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great. 18 Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
• Matt 26:24 : 24 The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born."
• 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 11:20 : 20 But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, They shall have no way to flee; Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit."
• Job 14:10 : 10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
• Jer 15:10 : 10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me.