Jeremiah 20:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave and her womb forever pregnant.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Because he did not slay me in the womb, so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb always great.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ because he didn’t kill me in the womb and let my mother become my grave, her womb pregnant forever.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ So let him be, who did not put me to death from the womb, so that my mother would have been my sepulcher, and her womb would have been my eternal resting place!

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Who slew me not from the womb that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.

Jeremiah 20:17 Cross References

Job 3:16

Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like an infant that never sees the light?

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.