Jeremiah 20:17

because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great [with me]!

Darby Translation

In The 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.

In Context

16And let that man be as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and repented not; and let him hear a cry in the morning, and a shouting at noonday,

18Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?

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Cross References

Job 3:10Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.

Job 3:16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred [sons], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 20:15-18

The Prophet's Impatient Appeal. ( b. c. 600.) 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. 16 And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; 17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always… Read the whole commentary →

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