Bible in Basic English
"Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?"
— Job 3:11, Bible in Basic English
“Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me? ”
“"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?”
“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?”
Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.
Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.
Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.
Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?
Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?
For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,
With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;