17 because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
Jeremiah 20:17
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Job 3:9–11
9 May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn. 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?
Odes of Solomon 41:9–11
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Job 10:17–19
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Psalms 71:5–7
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Odes of Solomon 28:13–15
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