Jeremiah 20:18
King James Version (KJV)
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
In context
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 20:18 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
- WEB World English Bible
- Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
- ASV American Standard Version
- Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Why [is] this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!
- DBY Darby Translation
- Wherefore came I forth from the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed in shame?
- WBS Webster Bible
- Why was I brought into the world to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?