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Jeremiah 20:17

Discouragement and depressionDeath and loss

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;

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.

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

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BSB
because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
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.
WEB
because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
ASV
because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
DARBY
because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great [with me]!
BLB
Because he did not kill me from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb pregnant forever.
ÅB
fordi han ikke drepte meg i mors liv, så min mor ble min grav, og hennes liv fruktsommelig til evig tid.
OTB
For han endte ikke mitt liv i mors liv, med min mor som min grav, hennes livmor forstørret for alltid.
B1930
fordi han ikke drepte mig i mors liv, så min mor blev min grav, og hennes liv fruktsommelig til evig tid.

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Cross references

  • Job 10:18–19

    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!

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  • Job 3:10–11

    Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

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  • Job 3:16

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

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  • Ecclesiastes 6:3

    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.

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