Jeremiah 20:17
King James Version (KJV)
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.
American Standard Version (ASV)
because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
World English Bible (WEB)
because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Jeremiah 20:17 Cross References
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
