¹⁰ Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

¹⁸ For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

¹⁰ Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

³ 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.

⁴ For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

⁵ Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

² Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

¹⁸ 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!

¹⁹ I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

¹ My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

² Oh that my grief were throughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together!

³ For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

⁵ But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had shut up her womb.

³¹ And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

¹⁷ 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.