Jeremiah 20:17
Cross References

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

Job 3:10
Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.

Job 3:11
Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?

Job 10:18
Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me!

Job 10:19
I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

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

he slew.

Job 3:10,11,16 Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes. . . .

Job 10:18,19 Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me! . . .

Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

Context
Jeremiah's Complaint
16Let that man be as the cities which the Lord hath overthrown, and hath not repented: let him hear a cry in the morning, and howling at noontide: 17Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.18Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?…
Lexicon
because
אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

he did not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

kill me
מוֹתְתַ֖נִי (mō·wṯ·ṯa·nî)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 4191: To die, to kill

in the womb
מֵרָ֑חֶם (mê·rā·ḥem)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7358: The womb

so that my mother
אִמִּי֙ (’im·mî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 517: A mother, )

might have been
וַתְּהִי־ (wat·tə·hî-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

my grave,
קִבְרִ֔י (qiḇ·rî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6913: A grave, sepulcher

and her womb
וְרַחְמָ֖הֿ (wə·raḥ·māh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7358: The womb

forever
עוֹלָֽם׃ (‘ō·w·lām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5769: Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always

enlarged.
הֲרַ֥ת (hă·raṯ)
Adjective - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2030: Pregnant


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
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