Job 3:11

This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

Cursed is the day in which I was born. Don’t let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

and in the wilderness where you have seen how that Yahweh your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.”

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

For behold, the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

For who, when they heard, rebelled? Wasn’t it all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Yahweh’s people!”

For when a few years have come, I will go the way of no return.

I will bless Yahweh at all times. His praise will always be in my mouth.

For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”

“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

so man lies down and doesn’t rise. Until the heavens are no more, they will not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.

Save your people, and bless your inheritance. Be their shepherd also, and bear them up forever.

Yes, they despised the pleasant land. They didn’t believe his word,

Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’

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 filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah.

“Listen to me, O Jacob, and Israel my called: I am he. I am the first. I am also the last.

Now Yahweh, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, says to bring Jacob again to him, and to gather Israel to him, for I am honorable in Yahweh’s eyes, and my God has become my strength.

I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall. They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you,” says Yahweh.

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird. There will be no birth, no one with child, and no conception.

Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, breathed his last breath, and was gathered to his people.

‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings, and brought you to myself.

The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger burned; and Yahweh’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

Let her not, I pray, be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

Moses cried to Yahweh, saying, “Heal her, God, I beg you!”

All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

Tell them, ‘As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so I will do to you.

Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?

Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.

Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”

He said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.”

Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

“ ‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

But the eyes of the wicked will fail. They will have no way to flee. Their hope will be the giving up of the spirit.”

But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

After my skin is destroyed, then I will see God in my flesh,

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.

But I will always hope, and will add to all of your praise.

They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually.

Every day I will praise you. I will extol your name forever and ever.

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.

Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.

It will happen in that day that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

Remember these things, Jacob and Israel; for you are my servant. I have formed you. You are my servant. Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

“Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been carried from their birth, that have been carried from the womb.

Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness!

“Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—

Listen, islands, to me. Listen, you peoples, from afar: Yahweh has called me from the womb; from the inside of my mother, he has mentioned my name.

“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

“Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth?’

Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them curses me.

Give them—Yahweh what will you give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.

When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.

But woe to those who are with child and to those who nurse babies in those days!

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

She fell down immediately at his feet and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

But when it was the good pleasure of God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through his grace

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.