Job 3:11-13

Job Laments His Birth

11 "Why m did I not die at birth,
come out from the womb and expire?
12 Why did n the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
13 For then I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,

  1. Cross References
    Job 10:18 - 19
    Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 30:3
    Then she said, "Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.
    Genesis 50:23
    And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation. The children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were counted as Joseph's own.
    Isaiah 66:12
    For thus says the Lord : "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip, and bounced upon her knees.
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