Or why was I not hidden like a miscarried child, like infants who never see daylight?
Jeremiah 20:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised because he didn’t kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, her womb eternally pregnant. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 because he didn’t kill me in the womb and let my mother become my grave, her womb pregnant forever. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Who slew me not from the womb that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception. |
Or why was I not hidden like a miscarried child, like infants who never see daylight?
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Woe is me, my mother, that you gave birth to me, a man who incites dispute and conflict in all the land. I did not lend or borrow, yet everyone curses me.