When the time came for Rebekah to give birth, ¹  there were ²  twins in her womb.

When it was time for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

My breath is repulsive ¹  to my wife; I am loathsome ²  to my brothers. ³ 

The wealth that he consumed ¹  he vomits up, God will make him throw it out ²  of his stomach.

For I am full of words, and the spirit within me ¹  constrains me. ² 

because it ¹  did not shut the doors ²  of my mother’s womb on me, ³  nor did it hide trouble ⁴  from my eyes!

“Why did I not ²  die ³  at birth, ⁴  and why did I not expire as ⁵  I came out of the womb?

I should have been as though I had never existed; ¹  I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

“Does a wise man answer with blustery knowledge, ¹  or fill his belly ²  with the east wind? ³ 

They conceive ¹  trouble and bring forth evil; their belly ²  prepares deception.”

For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; ¹  he does not let anything he desires ²  escape. ³ 

Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? ¹  Did not the same one form us in the womb?

but from my youth I raised the orphan ¹  like a father, and from my mother’s womb ²  I guided the widow! ³ 

Inside I am like wine which has no outlet, ¹  like new wineskins ²  ready to burst!

From whose womb does the ice emerge, and the frost from the sky, ¹  who gives birth to it,

Look ¹  at its strength in its loins, and its power in the muscles of its belly.

I have been dependent on you since birth; ¹  from the time I came out of my mother’s womb you have been my God. ² 

For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground. ¹ 

The wicked turn aside from birth; ¹  liars go astray as soon as they are born. ² 

Yes, ¹  sons ²  are a gift from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.