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“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Job 3:11 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતીઅયૂબ ૩:૧૧
હું ગર્ભસ્થાનમાં જ કેમ ન મરી ગયો? જનમતાં જ મેં પ્રાણ કેમ ન છોડ્યો?
हिन्दीअय्यूब ३:११
“मैं गर्भ ही में क्यों न मर गया? पेट से निकलते ही मेरा प्राण क्यों न छूटा?

In context

9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

10because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

11“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

13For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

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