Jeremiah 20:18

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

In Context

17Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:16To the woman also he said: I will multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be under thy husband's power, and he shall have dominion over thee.

Job 3:20Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to them that are in bitterness of soul?

Job 14:13Who will grant me this, that thou mayest protect me in hell, and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a. time when thou wilt remember me?

Psalms 90:9For all our days are spent; and in thy wrath we have fainted away. Our years shall be considered spider:

Isaiah 51:7Hearken to me, you that know what is just, my people who have my law in your heart: fear ye not the reproach of men, and be not afraid of their blasphemies.

Jeremiah 15:18Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed? it is become to me as the falsehood of deceitful waters that cannot be trusted.

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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