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Jer 20:17 — 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].

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

he slew		Job 3:10,11,16; Job 10:18,19; Ecc 6:3

Correlating Passages

he slew

	Job 3:10	Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
	Job 3:11	Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
	Job 3:16	Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
	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 10:19	I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
	Ecc 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.

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 20:17," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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