Jeremiah 20:17
Good News Translation
for not killing me before I was born. Then my mother's womb would have been my grave.

New Revised Standard Version
because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.

Contemporary English Version
He deserves to die for not killing me before I was born. Then my mother's body would have been my grave.

New American Bible
because he did not kill me in the womb! Then my mother would have been my grave, her womb confining me forever.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.

he slew.

Job 3:10,11,16 Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes. . . .

Job 10:18,19 Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me! . . .

Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

Context
Jeremiah's Complaint
16Let that man be as the cities which the Lord hath overthrown, and hath not repented: let him hear a cry in the morning, and howling at noontide: 17Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.18Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?…
Cross References
Job 3:10
Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.

Job 3:11
Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?

Job 10:18
Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me!

Job 10:19
I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

Jeremiah 20:16
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