17 (A)Because he did not kill me from the womb,
That my mother might have been my grave,
And her womb always enlarged with me.
18 (B)Why did I come forth from the womb to (C)see [a]labor and sorrow,
That my days should be consumed with shame?

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 20:18 toil

17 For he did not kill me in the womb,(A)
    with my mother as my grave,
    her womb enlarged forever.
18 Why did I ever come out of the womb(B)
    to see trouble(C) and sorrow
    and to end my days in shame?(D)

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