Job 3:11
Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?
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Job 3:11
Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?
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Job 3:12
Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?
Job 3:13
For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,
Job 3:14
With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;
Job 3:15
Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;
Job 3:16
Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
Psalms 58:8
Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:3
Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 6:5
Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.
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Job 3:9
Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.
Job 3:10
Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.
Job 10:19
And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.
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Job 10:18
Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,
Psalms 22:9
But it was you who took care of me from the day of my birth: you gave me faith even from my mother's breasts.
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Job 3:20
Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
Job 3:21
To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;
1 Kings 19:4
While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.
Numbers 11:15
If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.
Numbers 14:2
And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!
Jonah 4:3
So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.
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Jeremiah 20:14
A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.
Jeremiah 20:15
A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad.
Jeremiah 20:16
May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;
Jeremiah 20:17
Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.
Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?
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Job 14:10
But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?
Job 11:20
But the eyes of the evil-doers will be wasting away; their way of flight is gone, and their only hope is the taking of their last breath.
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Job 3:3
Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.
Jeremiah 15:10
Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.
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Job 13:19
Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.
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Genesis 49:33
And when Jacob had come to the end of these words to his sons, stretching himself on his bed, he gave up his spirit, and went the way of his people.
Matthew 27:50
And Jesus gave another loud cry, and gave up his spirit.
Acts 5:10
And straight away she went down at his feet, and her life went from her: and the young men came in and saw her dead, and they took her out and put her in the earth with her husband.
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Hosea 9:14
O Lord, what will you give them? Give them bodies which may not give birth and breasts without milk.
Matthew 24:19
But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.
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Luke 23:29
For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.
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