Jeremiah 20:17

World English Bible (WEB)

because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

In context

15 Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, “A boy is born to you,” making him very glad.

16 Let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and didn’t repent. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and shouting at noontime,

17 because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

18 Why did I come out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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.
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.
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.