Jeremiah 20:17

In 11 translations

BSB

because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.

KJV

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.

WEB

because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

ASV

because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

LSV

Because he has not put me to death from the womb, || And my mother is to me—my grave, || And her womb [is] a perpetual pregnancy.

YLT

Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me — my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.

DBY

because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great [with me]!

DRC

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

GNV

Because he hath not slaine me, euen from the wombe, or that my mother might haue bene my graue, or her wobe a perpetual conception.

JPS

Because He slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

LXXE

because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me.

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WLC

אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־מוֹתְתַ֖נִי מֵרָ֑חֶם וַתְּהִי־לִ֤י אִמִּי֙ קִבְרִ֔י וְרַחְמָ֖הֿ הֲרַ֥ת עוֹלָֽם׃

LXX-Br

ὅτι οὐκ ἀπέκτεινέ με ἐν μήτρᾳ, καὶ ἐγένετό μοι ἡ μήτηρ μου τάφος μου, καὶ ἡ μήτρα συλλήψεως αἰωνίας.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 10:18–19Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me! If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
• Job 3:10–11For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes. Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
• Ecclesiastes 6:3A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better…
• Job 3:16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

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