10 Bible Verses about Regretting Birth
Most Relevant Verses
“Let the day on which I was born perish,
And the night which announced: ‘There is a man-child conceived.’
“Why did I not die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?
Cursed be the day on which I was born;
Do not bless the day on which my mother gave birth to me!
Woe to me, my mother, that you have given birth to me
To be a man of strife and a man of contention to all the earth!
I have not loaned, nor have men lent money to me,
Yet everyone curses me.
‘Why then did You bring me out of the womb?
Would that I had perished and no eye had seen me!
Why did I come out of the womb
To see trouble and sorrow,
So that my days have been filled with shame?
I was brought forth in [a state of] wickedness;
In sin my mother conceived me [and from my beginning I, too, was sinful].
They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins [from head to foot], and you [presume to] teach us?” Then they threw him out [of the synagogue].
A good name is better than precious perfume,
And the day of one’s death better than the day of one’s birth.
