Jeremiah 20:17
Good News Translation
for not killing me before I was born. Then my mother's womb would have been my grave.

Contemporary English Version
He deserves to die for not killing me before I was born. Then my mother's body would have been my grave.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.

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Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.

he slew.

Job 3:10,11,16 Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes. . . .

Job 10:18,19 Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me! . . .

Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

Context
Jeremiah's Complaint
16Let that man be as the cities which the Lord hath overthrown, and hath not repented: let him hear a cry in the morning, and howling at noontide: 17Who slew me not from the womb, that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb an everlasting conception.18Why came I out of the womb, to see labour and sorrow, and that my days should be spent in confusion?…
Cross References
Job 3:10
Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.

Job 3:11
Why did I not die in the womb? why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?

Job 10:18
Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me!

Job 10:19
I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

Additional Translations
because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.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.

because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me.

because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great [with me]!

because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother should have been my grave, and her womb always great.

Because he slew me not at my birth; or that my mother might have been my grave, and she had not been delivered.

because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.
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