For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with
for on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household.
because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.
“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
“If only my grief could be weighed and placed with my calamity on the scales.
But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved her even though the LORD had closed her womb.
When the LORD saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
“Even today my complaint is bitter. His hand is heavy despite my groaning.
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!