Jeremiah 20:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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.