King James Version (KJV)
Job 3:11
“Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?”
Verse in context — Job 3
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Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
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Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
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Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
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For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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