Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
--------------------
Jeremiah 20:18
Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
--------------------
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.
Job 3:1
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
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 3:11
“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
Job 3:12
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
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.
Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
Numbers 11:11
Moses said to Yahweh, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?
Jeremiah 12:1
You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to plead a case with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?
Jeremiah 20:7
Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.
Jeremiah 20:11
But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.
John 4:3
he left Judea and departed into Galilee.
-----
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,
Job 3:22
who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
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.”
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.”
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.”
Job 7:15
so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.
Job 7:16
I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.
Jonah 4:8
When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he was faint and requested for himself that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
Job 6:9
even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
Job 14:13
“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time and remember me!
Jeremiah 8:3
Death will be chosen rather than life by all the residue that remain of this evil family, that remain in all the places where I have driven them,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Revelation 9:6
In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
-----
Jeremiah 19:14
Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where Yahweh had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of Yahweh’s house, and said to all the people:
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.
Jeremiah 15:17
I didn’t sit in the assembly of those who make merry and rejoice. I sat alone because of your hand, for you have filled me with indignation.
-----
Lamentations 3:1
I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Lamentations 1:12
“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
-----
Philippians 1:21
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Philippians 1:22
But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.
Philippians 1:23
But I am hard pressed between the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
Philippians 1:24
Yet to remain in the flesh is more needful for your sake.
Philippians 1:25
Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,
-----
Psalms 90:10
The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
Jeremiah 8:18
Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.
Public Domain