20 Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul, 21 who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure, 22 who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave? 23 Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
Job 3:20–23
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Jeremiah 20:17–18
17 because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged. 18 Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
Job 21:6–8
6 When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror. 7 Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? 8 Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Job 27:7–9
7 May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust. 8 For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? 9 Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?
Job 3:10–12
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?
Job 21:16–18
16 Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked. 17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction? 18 Are they like straw before the wind, like…
Job 10:17–19
17 You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave. 18 Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me! 19 If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the…
Job 17:14–16
14 and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ 15 where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me? 16 Will it go down to the gates of Sheol? Will we go down together into the dust?”
Job 20:4–6
4 Do you not know that from antiquity, since man was placed on the earth, 5 the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary? 6 Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,
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