"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."
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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
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.
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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 did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.
because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great [with 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.
Because he slew me not at my birth; or that my mother might have been my grave, and she had not been delivered.
because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.