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Jeremiah 20:17

World English Bible

17 because he didn’t kill me from the womb. So my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

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American Standard Version

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

Christian Standard Bible

because he didn’t kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, her womb eternally pregnant.

English Standard Version

because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great.

King 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 .

New American Standard Bible

Because he did not kill me before birth, So that my mother would have been my grave, And her womb forever pregnant.

New International Version

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

New King James Version

Because he did not kill me from the womb, That my mother might have been my grave, And her womb always enlarged with me.

New 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!