Jeremiah 20:17

because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother should have been my grave, and her womb always great.

Revised Version 1895

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

16And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontide;

18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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Cross References

Job 3:10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

Job 3:16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget an hundred children and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover 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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