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}.

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.

For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. {weary...: or, cut off while I live}

Even to day {is} my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning. {stroke: Heb. hand}

But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb. {worthy: or, double}

And when the LORD saw that Leah {was} hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel {was} barren.

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth {are} vanity. {sorrow: or, anger}

Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! {laid: Heb. lifted up}

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!

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}.

And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, {and} when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

And the people chode with Moses, and spake, saying, Would God that we had died when our brethren died before the LORD!

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!

Yea, better {is he} than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known {any thing}: this hath more rest than the other.