King James Version (KJV)
Jeremiah 20:18
“Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?”
Verse in context — Jeremiah 20
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And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
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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].
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Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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