because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.
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 satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered. Moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he.
For the Lord had closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.
Remove vexation from your heart, and put away pain from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
“Today also my complaint is bitter; my hand is heavy on account of my groaning.
“I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
“Oh that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea; therefore my words have been rash.
But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb.
When the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
“Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
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