Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Cross-reference
In Jeremiah 15:10, the prophet similarly laments his birth—'Woe to me, my mother, that you bore me'—a direct parallel to cursing his birth.
In Jeremiah 8:3, the nation's survivors prefer death to life — the same death-wish as Jeremiah's curse on his birth.
In Job 3:3-16, Job curses his birth day and wishes he had never been born—the same lament as Jeremiah's.
In 1 Kings 19:4, Elijah prays for death—a parallel despair over life, like cursing one's birth.
In Job 10:18, Job wishes he had died before birth—another direct parallel of regretting existence.
In Jonah 4:3, Jonah asks to die, saying death is better — directly paralleling Jeremiah's wish he had never been born.
In Ecclesiastes 2:17, the Teacher hates life and calls it meaningless, echoing Jeremiah's curse on his own birth.