Jeremiah 20:17 - King James Version - American Edition

¹⁷ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ 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)

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ because he didn’t kill me in the womb and let my mother become my grave, her womb pregnant forever.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ Who slew me not from the womb that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.

Jeremiah 20:17 Tagairtí Cros

Job 3:16

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.