Why wasn’t I a child who died at birth\par and was buried in the ground?\par I wish I were like a baby\par that never saw the light of day.\par
Jeremiah 20:17 - Easy To Read Version Why? Because that man did not kill me\par while I was in my mother’s body.\par If he had killed me at that time,\par my mother would have been my grave,\par and I would never have been born.\par 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. |
Why wasn’t I a child who died at birth\par and was buried in the ground?\par I wish I were like a baby\par that never saw the light of day.\par
A person might live a long time. And that person might have 100 children. But if that person is not satisfied with those good things, and if no one remembers him after his death, then I say that a baby that dies at birth is better off than that man.
Mother, I (Jeremiah) am sorry\par that you gave birth to me.\par I am the person that must accuse\par and criticize the whole land.\par I have not loaned or borrowed anything.\par But every person curses me.\par