Jeremiah 20:17 · 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}.”
— Jeremiah 20:17
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;
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Jeremiah 20 — Context
Cursed {be} the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
16And 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;
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}.
18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
Cross References
Job 10:18-19
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
Job 3:10-11
Because it shut not up the doors of my {mother's} womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Job 3:16
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants {which} never saw light.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget an 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.