Jeremiah 20:17

Because he slew me not before I saw the light, So that my mother might have been my grave, And her womb have been great with me forever!

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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 like the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and relented not; Let him hear an outcry in the morning, And an alarm at noontide;

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

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Cross References

Job 3:10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, And hid not trouble from mine eyes.

Job 3:16Or, as a hidden untimely birth, I had perished; As infants which never saw the light.

Ecclesiastes 6:3Though a man have a hundred children, and live many years, and though the days of his years be many, if his soul be not satisfied with good, and he have no burial, I say that 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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