Job 3:11
“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
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Job 3:11
“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
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Job 3:12
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
Job 3:13
For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
Job 3:14
with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
Job 3:15
or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
Job 3:16
or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
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 a stillborn child is better than he;
Psalms 58:8
Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
Ecclesiastes 4:3
Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 6:5
Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
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Job 3:9
Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
Job 3:10
because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
Job 10:19
I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
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Job 10:18
“ ‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
Psalms 22:9
But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.
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Job 3:20
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
Job 3:21
who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”
Numbers 11:15
If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”
Numbers 14:2
All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
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Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Jeremiah 20:15
Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.
Jeremiah 20:16
Let that man be as the cities which Yahweh overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime,
Jeremiah 20:17
because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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Job 14:10
But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”
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Job 3:3
“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
Jeremiah 15:10
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 every one of them curses me.
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Job 13:19
Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.
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Genesis 49:33
When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.
Matthew 27:50
Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.
Acts 5:10
She fell down immediately at his feet and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.
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Hosea 9:14
Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
Matthew 24:19
But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
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Luke 23:29
For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’
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