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. ]


In Context

14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

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. ]

18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Jeremiah 20:17 in Other Translations

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:17Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.

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.