Jeremiah 20:17
For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother’s womb my grave forever.
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- Job 10:18-19 : 18 An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me! 19 I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!
- Job 3:10-11 : 10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes! 11 Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
- Job 3:16 : 16 Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?
- Eccl 6:3 : 3 Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years– even if he lives a long, long time, but cannot enjoy his prosperity– even if he were to live forever– I would say,“A stillborn child is better off than he is!”
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18Why did I ever come forth from my mother’s womb? All I experience is trouble and grief, and I spend my days in shame.
- Job 3:10-123 verses84%
10because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!
11Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
12Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
- Job 10:17-204 verses83%
17You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.
18An Appeal for Relief“Why then did you bring me out from the womb? I should have died and no eye would have seen me!
19I should have been as though I had never existed; I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!
20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
- Ps 22:9-102 verses77%
9Yes, you are the one who brought me out from the womb and made me feel secure on my mother’s breasts.
10I have been dependent on you since birth; from the time I came out of my mother’s womb you have been my God.
- Jer 20:14-163 verses77%
14Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.
15Cursed be the man who made my father very glad when he brought him the news that a baby boy had been born to him!
16May that man be like the cities that the LORD destroyed without showing any mercy. May he hear a cry of distress in the morning and a battle cry at noon.
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16Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?
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6I have leaned on you since birth; you pulled me from my mother’s womb. I praise you continually.
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18but from my youth I raised the orphan like a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow!
- Job 31:15-162 verses74%
15Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?
16If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
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13Certainly you made my mind and heart; you wove me together in my mother’s womb.
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20The womb forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.
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3“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said,‘A man has been conceived!’
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5Look, I was guilty of sin from birth, a sinner the moment my mother conceived me.
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22ת(Tav) As if it were a feast day, you call enemies to terrify me on every side. On the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived. My enemy has finished off those healthy infants whom I bore and raised.
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13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
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17Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.
- Ps 139:15-162 verses71%
15my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.
16Your eyes saw me when I was inside the womb. All the days ordained for me were recorded in your scroll before one of them came into existence.
- Job 17:13-153 verses71%
13If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
14If I cry to corruption,‘You are my father,’ and to the worm,‘My mother,’ or‘My sister,’
15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?
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10Jeremiah Complains about His Lot and The Lord Responds I said,“Oh, mother, how I regret that you ever gave birth to me! I am always starting arguments and quarrels with the people of this land. I have not lent money to anyone and I have not borrowed from anyone. Yet all of these people are treating me with contempt.”
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1Ideal Israel Delivers the Exiles Listen to me, you coastlands! Pay attention, you people who live far away! The LORD summoned me from birth; he commissioned me when my mother brought me into the world.
- 1 Kgs 3:20-212 verses70%
20She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side, while your servant was sleeping. She put him in her arms, and put her dead son in my arms.
21I got up in the morning to nurse my son, and there he was, dead! But when I examined him carefully in the morning, I realized it was not my baby.”
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5No eye took pity on you to do even one of these things for you to spare you; you were thrown out into the open field because you were detested on the day you were born.
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13his archers surround me. Without pity he pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.
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18The LORD severely punished me, but he did not hand me over to death.
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20ר(Resh) Look, O LORD! I am distressed; my stomach is in knots! My heart is pounding inside me. Yes, I was terribly rebellious! Out in the street the sword bereaves a mother of her children; Inside the house death is present.
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19Before this I had been like a docile lamb ready to be led to the slaughter. I did not know they were making plans to kill me. I did not know they were saying,“Let’s destroy the tree along with its fruit! Let’s remove Jeremiah from the world of the living so people will not even be reminded of him any more.”
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12Do not let her be like a baby born dead, whose flesh is half-consumed when it comes out of its mother’s womb!”
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3When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,
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13The labor pains of a woman will overtake him, but the baby will lack wisdom; when the time arrives, he will not come out of the womb!
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19Your descendants would have been as numerous as sand, and your children like its granules. Their name would not have been cut off and eliminated from my presence.
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18An Appeal to God as Witness“O earth, do not cover my blood, nor let there be a secret place for my cry.
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1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.
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16But I have not pestered you to bring disaster. I have not desired the time of irreparable devastation. You know that. You are fully aware of every word that I have spoken.
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15so that I would prefer strangling, and death more than life.
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3Otherwise, I will strip her naked, and expose her like she was when she was born. I will turn her land into a wilderness and make her country a parched land, so that I might kill her with thirst.
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20He brought me out into a wide open place; he delivered me because he was pleased with me.
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27whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.