Jeremiah 20:17

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

Cross References

Job 3:16

Or [why] was I not a miscarriage, hidden and put away, as infants who never saw light?

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his life is not filled with good, and also he is given no burial [honors nor is laid to rest in the sepulcher of his fathers], I say that [he who had] an untimely birth [resulting in death] is better off than he, [Job 3:16.]

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me to be a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither loaned, nor have men loaned to me, yet everyone curses me. [Jer. 1:18, 19.]