Jeremiah 20:18
New International Version
Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow and to end my days in shame?

New Living Translation
Why was I ever born? My entire life has been filled with trouble, sorrow, and shame.

English Standard Version
Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?

Berean Standard Bible
Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?

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

New King James Version
Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, That my days should be consumed with shame?

New American Standard Bible
Why did I ever come out of the womb To look at trouble and sorrow, So that my days have been spent in shame?

NASB 1995
Why did I ever come forth from the womb To look on trouble and sorrow, So that my days have been spent in shame?

NASB 1977
Why did I ever come forth from the womb To look on trouble and sorrow, So that my days have been spent in shame?

Legacy Standard Bible
Why did I ever come forth from the womb To look on trouble and sorrow, So that my days have been spent in shame?

Amplified Bible
Why did I come out of the womb To see trouble and sorrow, So that my days have been filled with shame?

Christian Standard Bible
Why did I come out of the womb to see only struggle and sorrow, to end my life in shame?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Why did I come out of the womb to see only struggle and sorrow, to end my life in shame?

American Standard Version
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Why have I proceeded from the womb to see labor and misery, and my days are finished in shame?”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?

Contemporary English Version
Why did I have to be born? Was it just to suffer and die in shame?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Why did I come out of the womb? All I've seen is trouble and grief. I will finish my days in shame.

Good News Translation
Why was I born? Was it only to have trouble and sorrow, to end my life in disgrace?

International Standard Version
Why did I ever come out of the womb to see trouble and sorrow, and to finish my life living in shame?

JPS Tanakh 1917
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb To see labour and sorrow, That my days should be consumed in shame?

Literal Standard Version
Why [is] this? I have come out from the womb | To see labor and sorrow, | Indeed, my days are consumed in shame!

Majority Standard Bible
Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?

New American Bible
Why did I come forth from the womb, to see sorrow and pain, to end my days in shame?

NET Bible
Why did I ever come forth from my mother's womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.

New Revised Standard Version
Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?

New Heart English Bible
Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Webster's Bible Translation
Why was I brought into the world to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

World English Bible
Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Young's Literal Translation
Why is this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Jeremiah's Complaint
17because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged. 18Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?

Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:9
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.

Job 3:20
Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

Job 5:7
Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

Job 14:1
"Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

Psalm 69:19
You know my reproach, my shame and disgrace. All my adversaries are before You.

Psalm 90:9
For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

Psalm 90:10
The length of our days is seventy years--or eighty if we are strong--yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.


Treasury of Scripture

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

came.

Job 3:20
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

Job 14:1,13
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble…

Lamentations 3:1
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

to see.

Jeremiah 8:18
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

Genesis 3:16-19
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee…

Psalm 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

with.

Psalm 69:19
Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries are all before thee.

Isaiah 1:6
From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

Isaiah 61:7
For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

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Jeremiah 20
1. Pashur, smiting Jeremiah, receives a new name, and a fearful doom.
7. Jeremiah complains of contempt;
10. of treachery;
14. and of his birth.














(18) Wherefore came I forth . . .?--Like the preceding verse, this is in its tone, almost in its words, an echo of Job 3:11-12; Job 3:20.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Why
לָ֤מָּה (lām·māh)
Interrogative
Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

did I come out
יָצָ֔אתִי (yā·ṣā·ṯî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

of the womb
מֵרֶ֣חֶם (mê·re·ḥem)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7358: The womb

to see
לִרְא֥וֹת (lir·’ō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7200: To see

only trouble
עָמָ֖ל (‘ā·māl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5999: Toil, wearing effort, worry, wheth, of body, mind

and sorrow,
וְיָג֑וֹן (wə·yā·ḡō·wn)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3015: Grief, sorrow

and to end
וַיִּכְל֥וּ (way·yiḵ·lū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3615: To be complete, at an end, finished, accomplished, or spent

my days
יָמָֽי׃ (yā·māy)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 3117: A day

in shame?
בְּבֹ֖שֶׁת (bə·ḇō·šeṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1322: Shame, shameful thing


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