Jeremiah 20:17
King James Version (KJV)
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.
In context
15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
17 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.
18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Jeremiah 20:17 in every translation
- KJV King James 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.
- WEB World English Bible
- because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
- ASV American Standard Version
- because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 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.
- DBY Darby Translation
- because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great [with me]!
- WBS Webster Bible
- Because he slew me not at my birth; or that my mother might have been my grave, and she had not been delivered.