Jeremiah 20:17 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁷ because I was not slain from the womb, so that my mother should have been my grave and her womb forever great.

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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!

Jeremiah 20:17 Cross References

Job 3:16

or as a hidden untimely birth, as infants who never saw light?

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man brings forth a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his being is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a premature birth is better than he,

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and a man of contention to all the earth! I have neither lent for interest, nor have men lent to me for interest. All of them are reviling me.