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.
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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.
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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?
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.
Job 3:1
Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,
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.
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 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?
Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.
Jeremiah 20:11
But the Lord is with me as a great one, greatly to be feared: so my attackers will have a fall, and they will not overcome me: they will be greatly shamed, because they have not done wisely, even with an unending shame, kept in memory for ever.
Numbers 11:11
And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this evil? and why have I not grace in your eyes, that you have put on me the care of all this people?
2 Samuel 1:21
O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, you fields of death: for there the arms of the strong have been shamed, the arms of Saul, as if he had not been marked with the holy oil.
Jeremiah 20:7
O Lord, you have been false to me, and I was tricked; you are stronger than I, and have overcome me: I have become a thing to be laughed at all the day, everyone makes sport of me.
John 4:3
He went out of Judaea into Galilee again.
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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.
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;
Job 3:22
Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;
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.
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.
Jonah 4:1
But this seemed very wrong to Jonah, and he was angry.
Jonah 4:8
Then when the sun came up, God sent a burning east wind: and so great was the heat of the sun on his head that Jonah was overcome, and, requesting death for himself, said, Death is better for me than life.
Jonah 4:9
And the Lord said to Jonah, Have you any right to be angry about the vine? And he said, I have a right to be truly angry.
Job 7:15
So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.
Job 7:16
I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.
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Philippians 1:21
For to me life is Christ and death is profit.
Philippians 1:22
But if I go on living in the flesh--if this is the fruit of my work--then I do not see what decision to make.
Philippians 1:23
I am in a hard position between the two, having a desire to go away and be with Christ, which is very much better:
Philippians 1:24
Still, to go on in the flesh is more necessary because of you.
Philippians 1:25
And being certain of this, I am conscious that I will go on, yes, and go on with you all, for your growth and joy in the faith;
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1 Samuel 1:11
And she made an oath, and said, O Lord of armies, if you will truly take note of the sorrow of your servant, not turning away from me but keeping me in mind, and will give me a man-child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.
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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,
Jeremiah 15:17
I did not take my seat among the band of those who are glad, and I had no joy; I kept by myself because of your hand; for you have made me full of wrath.
Jeremiah 19:14
Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to give the prophet's word; and he took his place in the open square of the Lord's house, and said to all the people,
John 16:21
When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.
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