Job 3:11-22
New American Standard Bible 1995
11 “(A)Why did I not die [a]at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?
12 “Why did the knees receive me,
And why the breasts, that I should suck?
13 “For now I (B)would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
14 With (C)kings and with (D)counselors of the earth,
Who rebuilt (E)ruins for themselves;
15 Or with (F)princes (G)who had gold,
Who were filling their houses with silver.
16 “Or like a miscarriage which is [b]discarded, I would not be,
As infants that never saw light.
17 “There the wicked cease from raging,
And there the [c]weary are at (H)rest.
18 “The prisoners are at ease together;
They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19 “The small and the great are there,
And the slave is free from his master.
20 “Why is (I)light given to him who suffers,
And life to the bitter of soul,
21 Who [d](J)long for death, but there is none,
And dig for it more than for (K)hidden treasures,
22 Who rejoice greatly,
And exult when they find the grave?
Ecclesiastes 6:3
New American Standard Bible 1995
3 If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many [a]they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper (A)burial, then I say, “Better (B)the miscarriage than he,
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- Ecclesiastes 6:3 Lit the days of his years
Luke 23:29
New American Standard Bible 1995
29 For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘(A)Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’
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