Jeremiah 20:17

he that killide not me fro the wombe, here cry eerli, and yellynge in the tyme of myddai; that my modir were a sepulcre to me, and hir wombe were euerlastinge conseyuyng.

Bible (Wycliffe)

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

16Thilke man be as the citees ben, whiche the Lord distriede, and it repentide not hym;

18Whi yede Y out of the wombe, that Y schulde se trauel and sorewe, and that mi daies schulen be waastid in schenschipe?

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Cross References

Job 3:10For it closide not the doris of the wombe, that bar me, nethir took awei yuels fro min iyen.

Job 3:16ethir as a `thing hid not borun Y schulde not stonde, ethir whiche conseyued sien not liyt.

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man gendrith an hundrid fre sones, and lyueth many yeris, and hath many daies of age, and his soule vsith not the goodis of his catel, and wantith biriyng; Y pronounce of this man, that a deed borun child is betere than he.

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