Jeremiah 20:17
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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.because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
In other translations
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.because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Job 3:10-1110 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?10 For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes. 11 Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
- Job 10:18-1918 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! 19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.18 Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me! 19 If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.A 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.
- Job 3:16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
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