Jeremiah 20:17

New American Bible - revised edition

because he did not kill me in the womb! Then my mother would have been my grave, her womb confining me forever.

Cross References

Job 3:16

Or why was I not buried away like a stillborn child, like babies that have never seen the light?

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Should one have a hundred children and live many years, no matter to what great age, still if one has not the full benefit of those goods, I proclaim that the child born dead, even if left unburied, is more fortunate.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe to me, my mother, that you gave me birth! a man of strife and contention to all the land! I neither borrow nor lend, yet everyone curses me.