Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 2:17
Explains a profound sense of despair and hatred for life, whereas Lamentations 3:21 focuses on finding hope.
Ecclesiastes 2:17: Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 4:3
Suggests that those who have never existed are better off, contrasting the hope found in Lamentations 3:21.
Ecclesiastes 4:3: Yea, better [is he] than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Contradiction with Job 3:3
Expresses a wish to not have been born as opposed to recalling hope as in Lamentations 3:21.
Job 3:3: Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Contradiction with 1 Samuel 15:35
Depicts unending grief, unlike the renewal of hope in Lamentations 3:21.
1 Samuel 15:35: And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.
Contradiction with Jeremiah 20:14
Curses the day of birth in distress, conflicting with the hope and remembrance in Lamentations 3:21.
Jeremiah 20:14: Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.