Jeremiah 20:17

Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

16Let that man be as the cities that the Lord hath overthrown, and hath not repented: let him hear a cry in the morning, and howling at noontide:

18Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?

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Cross References

Job 3:10Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.

Job 3:16Or as a hidden untimely birth I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born 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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