Job 3:10
because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
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- Genesis 20:18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3–5 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; for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness. Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
- 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.