Jeremiah 20:17
Because he did not slay me from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always great with me.
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Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts
For he did not kill me in the womb, so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever pregnant.
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
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.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
because he slew{H4191} me not from the womb;{H7358} and so my mother{H517} would have been my grave,{H6913} and her womb{H7358} always{H5769} great.{H2030}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
Because he slew{H4191}{(H8790)} me not from the womb{H7358}; or that my mother{H517} might have been my grave{H6913}, and her womb{H7358} to be always{H5769} great{H2030} with me.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
because he slewe me not, as soone as I came out off my mothers wombe, and because my mother was not my graue hirselff, that the byrth might not haue come out, but remayned still in her.
Geneva Bible (1560)
Because he hath not slaine me, euen from the wombe, or that my mother might haue bene my graue, or her wobe a perpetual conception.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
Why sluest thou not me assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe? or that my mother had ben my graue her selfe, that the byrth might not haue come out, but remayned still in her?
Authorized King James Version (1611)
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].
Webster's Bible (1833)
because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.
American Standard Version (1901)
because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
American Standard Version (1901)
because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.
World English Bible (2000)
because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.
Referenced Verses
- Job 10:18-19 : 18 Why then have You brought me forth out of the womb? Oh, that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! 19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Job 3:10-11 : 10 Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes. 11 Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not expire when I came out of the belly?
- Job 3:16 : 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have existed; like infants who never saw light.
- Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, yet his soul is not filled with good, and indeed he has no burial; I say, that a premature birth is better than he.
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18 Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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10 Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes.
11 Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not expire when I came out of the belly?
12 Why were there knees to receive me? Or why breasts that I should nurse?
- Job 10:17-204 verses83%
17 You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
18 Why then have You brought me forth out of the womb? Oh, that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
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9 But You are He who took me out of the womb; You made me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
10 I was cast upon You from the womb; You are my God from my mother’s belly.
- Jer 20:14-163 verses77%
14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed.
15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born to you; making him very glad.
16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and did not repent: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontime;
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16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have existed; like infants who never saw light.
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6 By you have I been upheld from birth; you are he who took me out of my mother's womb; my praise shall be continually of you.
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18 (For from my youth he was raised with me as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
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15 Did not He that made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?
16 If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
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13 For You have formed my inward parts; You have covered me in my mother's womb.
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20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be remembered no more; and wickedness shall be broken like a tree.
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3 Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived.
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5 Behold, I was shaped in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.
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22 You have called as on a solemn day my terrors all around, so that in the day of the Lord's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have nurtured and brought up my enemy has consumed.
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13 Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.
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15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth.
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13 If I wait, the grave is my house; I have made my bed in the darkness.
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15 And where now is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?
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10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on interest, nor men have lent to me on interest; yet every one of them curses me.
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13 His archers surround me, he cleaves my entrails asunder and does not spare; he pours out my gall upon the ground.
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18 The LORD has chastened me severely, but He has not given me over to death.
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20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my heart is troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.
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19 But I was like a gentle lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.
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3 For I was my father's son, tender and dearly loved in the sight of my mother.
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19 Your descendants also would have been like the sand, and the offspring of your body like its gravel; his name would not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
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18 O earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.
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1 My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.
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15 so that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.
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20 He brought me forth also into a large place: he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
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27 Whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!