Jeremiah 20:17
because he should have killed me in the womb so that my mother would have been my grave, remaining pregnant forever.
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In Context
18Why was I born only to see trouble and sadness, and to end my life in shame?
Cross References
Job 3:10for it did not shut my mother's womb to prevent me from seeing trouble.
Job 3:16Why wasn't I a miscarriage, buried in secret, a baby who never saw the light?
Ecclesiastes 6:3A man could have one hundred children, and grow old, but it wouldn't matter how long his life was if he couldn't enjoy it and at the end receive a decent burial. I would say that a stillborn child would be better off than him.
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 →