Jeremiah 20:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Jeremiah 20:18 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 3:20
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
1 Peter 4:14-16
If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. …
Lamentations 3:1
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
1 Corinthians 4:9-13
For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Birthday 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. 18)

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…