Ecclesiastes 4:3

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• Luke 23:29
  For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
• Matthew 24:19
  And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
• Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
  ³ If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. ⁴ For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. ⁵ Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.³ A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. ⁴ For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity. ⁵ The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,
• Psalm 55:6-11
  ⁶ And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. ⁷ Lo, then would I wander far off, and remain in the wilderness. Selah. ⁸ I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest. ⁹ Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.⁶ I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest. ⁷ How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah ⁸ I would hurry to my shelter, far from this raging tempest.” ⁹ O Lord, confuse and confound their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.
• Jeremiah 20:17-18
  ¹⁷ Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. ¹⁸ Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?¹⁷ because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged. ¹⁸ Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
• Job 10:18-19
  ¹⁸ Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! ¹⁹ I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.¹⁸ Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me! ¹⁹ If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
• Ecclesiastes 2:17
  Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
• Jeremiah 9:2-3
  ² Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. ³ And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord.² If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people. ³ “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
• Job 3:22
  Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?
• Job 3:10-16
  ¹⁰ Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. ¹¹ Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? ¹² Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? ¹³ For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,¹⁰ For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes. ¹¹ Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb? ¹² Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed? ¹³ For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

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