Job 10:18
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
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- Jeremiah 20:14–16 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy. May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,
- Job 3:10–11 For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes. Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
- Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”