Jeremiah 20:17–18
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17He should have killed me in my mother’s body.
He should have made my mother my grave.
He should have let her body stay large forever.
18Why did I ever come out of my mother’s body?
I’ve seen nothing but trouble and sorrow.
My days will end in shame.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
because he did not kill me in the womb;
so my mother would have been my grave,
and her womb forever great.
Why did I come out from the womb
to see toil and sorrow,
and spend my days in shame?
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
For he did not kill me in the womb,
with my mother as my grave,
her womb enlarged forever.
Why did I ever come out of the womb
to see trouble and sorrow
and to end my days in shame?
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
because he didn’t kill me in the womb
so that my mother might have been my grave,
her womb eternally pregnant.
Why did I come out of the womb
to see only struggle and sorrow,
to end my life in shame?
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NLTNew Living Translation
because he did not kill me at birth.
Oh, that I had died in my mother’s womb,
that her body had been my grave!
Why was I ever born?
My entire life has been filled
with trouble, sorrow, and shame.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Because he did not kill me in the womb,
so that my mother would have been for me my grave,
and her womb would be pregnant forever.
Why did I come out from the womb,
to see toil, and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
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KJV 1900King James Version
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.
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb
To see labour and sorrow,
That my days should be consumed with shame?
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