Jeremiah 20:17
because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.
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he slew.

Job 3:10, 11, 16
For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes. . . .

Job 10:18, 19
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me! . . .

Ecclesiastes 6:3
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

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New American Standard Bible
Because he did not kill me before birth, So that my mother would have been my grave, And her womb ever pregnant.

King James Bible
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.

Holman 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.

International Standard Version
because he didn't kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave and her womb forever pregnant.

NET Bible
For he did not kill me before I came from the womb, making my pregnant mother's womb my grave forever.
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