After that she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.

She became pregnant and gave birth to a son. Then she said, “God has taken away my shame.”

She became pregnant and had a son. Judah named him Er.

She became pregnant again and had another son, whom she named Onan.

So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong.

These are the descendants of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,

Canaan was the father of Sidon – his firstborn – and Heth,

Abigail bore Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.

Caleb’s concubine Maacah bore Sheber and Tirhanah.

Jehoiada chose two wives for him who gave him sons and daughters.

“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said, ‘A man has been conceived!’

but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

But an empty man will become wise, when a wild donkey’s colt is born a human being.

“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

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

He preys on the barren and childless woman, and does not treat the widow well.

You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!

Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?

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