Jeremiah 20:17

Because I was not slain from the womb,—Nor did my mother become my grave, Nor was her womb great for ever!

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

16Making him very glad: Yea let that man be—as the cities which Yahweh overthrew and repented not,—And let him hear An outcry in the morning, and A war-shout at broad noon!

18Wherefore was it—That from the womb, I came forth, to see labour and pain; and That in shame should my days be consumed!

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Cross References

Job 3:10Because it closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes.

Job 3:16Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light:

Ecclesiastes 6:3Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth!

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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