Jeremiah 20:17
Jeremiah · Old Testament · Chapter 20
“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.”Jeremiah 20:17
What Does Jeremiah 20:17 Mean?
Jeremiah 20:17 is found in the book of Jeremiah, chapter 20, verse 17 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 5 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (5)
These passages are connected to Jeremiah 20:17 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Job 3:10“Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.”Job 10:18“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.”Ecclesiastes 4:3“Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.”
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