Jeremiah 20:17

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:18-19 : 18 And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me. 19 As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,
  • Job 3:10-11 : 10 Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes. 11 Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!
  • Job 3:16 : 16 (Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, `Better than he `is' the untimely birth.'

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    18Why `is' this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!

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    17Thou renewest Thy witnesses against me, And dost multiply Thine anger with me, Changes and warfare `are' with me.

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    19As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,

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    14Cursed `is' the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed!

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    16Then hath that man been as the cities, That Jehovah overthrew, and repented not, And he hath heard a cry at morning, And a shout at time of noon.

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    16(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)

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  • Job 31:18
    74%

    18(But from my youth He grew up with me as `with' a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)

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