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


In Context

14 Cursed be the day wherein I was borne: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed.

15 Cursed be the man that brought the tidings to my father, saying: A man child is born to thee: and made him greatly rejoice.

16 Let that man be as the cities that the Lord hath overthrown, and hath not repented: let him hear a cry in the morning, and howling at noontide:

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

18 Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?

Jeremiah 20:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:17Because 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. ]

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:17For he did not kill me in the womb, with my mother as my grave, her womb enlarged forever.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:17because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:17because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:17because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother should have been my grave, and her womb always great.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:17Because he slew me not at my birth; or that my mother might have been my grave, and she had not been delivered.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:17because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:17Because 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:17Because 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.