Jeremiah 20:17 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁷ since he did not kill me in the womb, so my mother might have been my grave—her womb filled forever.

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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!

Jeremiah 20:17 Tagairtí Cros

Job 3:16

Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn, like infants who never saw light?

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Even if a man should father a hundred children and live many years, however many the days of his years may be, yet his soul is never satisfied with his prosperity and he does not have a proper burial, then I say that it is better for the stillborn than him.

Jeremiah 15:10

Oy to me, my mother, that you gave birth to me— a man of strife and conflict to all the land! I did not lend or borrow, yet everyone curses me.