Jeremiah 20:18
16 May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. May he hear an outcry in the morning and a battle cry at noon,
17 because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
- KJV
- Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
- WEB
- Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
- ASV
- Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
- DARBY
- Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?
- BLB
- Why [is] this—[that] from the womb I came forth to see trouble and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
- ÅB
- Hvorfor kom jeg da ut av mors liv til å se strev og sorg og ende mine dager i skam?
[^1]: redsel rundt omkring; JER 20, 10; 6, 25. - OTB
- Hvorfor kom jeg ut av mors liv for å se motgang og sorg, og for å ende mine dager i vanære?
- B1930
- Hvorfor kom jeg da ut av mors liv til å se møie og sorg og ende mine dager i skam?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 3:20
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
Read in contextJob 14:1
“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
Read in contextLamentations 3:1
I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.
Read in context1 Peter 4:14–16
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
Read in context1 Corinthians 4:9–13
For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
Read in contextPsalms 90:9–10
For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
Read in contextPsalms 69:19
You know my reproach, my shame and disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.
Read in contextHebrews 12:2
Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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