Genesis 20:18
18For the Lord ahad closed all the wombs of the house of Abimelech because of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.Genesis 29:31
Jacob’s Children
31When the Lord saw that Leah was bhated, che opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.1 Samuel 1:5
5But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the Lord had closed her womb. ▼▼Syriac; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain. Septuagint And, although he loved Hannah, he would give Hannah only one portion, because the Lord had closed her womb
Job 10:18-19
18 e“Why did you bring me out from the womb?Would that I had died before any eye had seen me
19 fand were as though I had not been,
carried from the womb to the grave.
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
3If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that gthe days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life’s hgood things, and he also has no iburial, I say that ja stillborn child is better off than he. 4For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered. 5Moreover, it has not kseen the sun or known anything, yet it finds lrest rather than he.Jeremiah 20:17
17 mbecause he did not kill me in the womb;so my mother would have been my grave,
and her womb forever great.
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