17 Bible Verses for Pregnancy, Including the One That Admits Nobody Understands It



  • Ecclesiastes 11:5 says plainly that nobody understands how a body is formed in the womb, which makes not understanding the normal condition rather than a failure.
  • Job 31:15 makes the Bible’s oldest case for human equality out of embryology: the same one formed us both.
  • Isaiah 44:24 uses one verb for forming a child and stretching out the heavens, with no sense of a change in scale.
  • Psalm 22:9-10 turns the subject around: the woman carrying a child was carried herself.
  • Psalm 113:9 keeps the childless woman in Israel’s festival liturgy, which is an honesty most churches have lost.

The Bible’s own verdict on pregnancy is that nobody understands it. “As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God,” says Ecclesiastes. Scripture is full of confidence about who is at work in there and unbothered about explaining the mechanism to us. The seventeen passages below keep that shape: what is said about the child, what is said to the mother,…

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