Ecclesiastes 6:5

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• Psalm 58:8
  As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
• Job 3:10-13
  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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  Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
• Psalm 90:7-9
  ⁷ For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. ⁸ Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. ⁹ For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.⁷ For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath. ⁸ You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence. ⁹ For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

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