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The Book of Job, Chapter 3, Verse 11

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Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
King James Version
Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
American Standard Version
Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?
New English Translation
Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
World English Bible
"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
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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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With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
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Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
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There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
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[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.
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Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;
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Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;