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Jeremiah 20:17
Jeremiah 20:17 is verse 17 of Jeremiah chapter 20, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
King James Version
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.
World English Bible
because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
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Jeremiah 20:15–18 · Berean Standard Bible
15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.
16 May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,
17 because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
18 Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
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!
Job 10:19If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
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.