Jeremiah 20:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.”
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“because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.”
King James Version · Public Domain“because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me--my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 20:17 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 3:10For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
- Job 3:11Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
- Job 3:16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
- Job 10:18Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
- Ecclesiastes 6:3A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
- Jeremiah 15:10Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
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