Job 3:16

Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

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

He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.

Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, weeping bitterly.

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

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

Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish, and wine to the bitter in soul.

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:

because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

Ananias departed and entered into the house. Laying his hands on him, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord, who appeared to you on the road by which you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which I will reveal to you;

and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.

“I am a stranger and a foreigner living with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.’ ”

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.”

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.”

When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”

and the body of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field on Jezreel’s land, so that they won’t say, “This is Jezebel.” ’ ”

Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab’s sons, saying,

Of all my sons (for Yahweh has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of Yahweh’s kingdom over Israel.

Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

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

For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life will see the light.’

to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

Don’t let the flood waters overwhelm me, neither let the deep swallow me up. Don’t let the pit shut its mouth on me.

For your loving kindness is great toward me. You have delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

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

Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?

All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Truly the light is sweet, and it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to see the sun.

All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

They will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the army of the sky, which they have loved, which they have served, after which they have walked, which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will be like dung on the surface of the earth.

Therefore Yahweh says concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: “He will have no one to sit on David’s throne. His dead body will be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.

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

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains. The earth barred me in forever: yet have you brought up my life from the pit, Yahweh my God.

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

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

Jesus answered, “Aren’t there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn’t stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how at Damascus he had preached boldly in the name of Jesus.

The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;

He said, ‘The God of our fathers has appointed you to know his will, and to see the Righteous One, and to hear a voice from his mouth.

and saw him saying to me, ‘Hurry and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not receive testimony concerning me from you.’

You were dead through your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh. He made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she lives.

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

For, “He who would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations, people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.