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Jeremiah 20:17

WEB

17because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

KJV

17Because 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.

BSB

17because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.

FBV

17because he should have killed me in the womb so that my mother would have been my grave, remaining pregnant forever.

Extra References

Job 3:10-11

10because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. 11“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Job 10:18-19

18“‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me. 19I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 3:16

16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

3If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he;