Jeremiah 20:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

Jeremiah 20:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 3:10-11
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. …
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 3:16
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.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Complaint Discontentment Doubting Fault Finding Murmuring

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 14-18)

What is the meaning of this? Does there proceed out of the same mouth blessing and cursing? Could he that said so cheerfully (Jer. 20:13), Sing unto the Lord, praise you the Lord, say so passionately (Jer. 20:14), Cursed be the day wherein I was born? How shall we reconcile these? What we have in these verses the prophet records, I suppose, to his own shame, as he had recorded that in the foregoin…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

14-18. The contrast between the spirit of this passage and the preceding thanksgiving is to be explained thus: to show how great was the deliverance (Jr 20:13), he subjoins a picture of what his wounded spirit had been previous to his deliverance; I had said in the time of my imprisonment, “Cursed be the day”; my feeling was that of Job (Job 3:3, 10, 11, whose words Jeremiah therefore copies). Tho…