Genesis 30:2
And Jacob being angry with her, answered: Am I as God, who hath deprived thee of the fruit of thy womb?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 20:18For the Lord had closed up every womb of the house of Abimelech on ac- count of Sara, Abraham's wife.
Genesis 29:31And the Lord seeing that he despised Lia, opened her womb, but her sister remained barren.
Genesis 50:19And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God?
Deuteronomy 7:13And he will love thee and multiply thee, and will bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy vintage, thy oil, and thy herds, and the flocks of thy sheep upon the land, for which he swore to thy fathers that he would give it thee.
1 Samuel 2:5They that were full before have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she that had many children is weakened.
Psalms 113:9Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 30:2-14
Increase of Jacob's Family. ( b. c. 1745.) 1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? 3 And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her. 4 And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her. 5 And… Read the whole commentary →