Cross references
Jeremiah 20:17
because he did not kill me in the womb
so that my mother might have been my grave,
and her womb forever enlarged.
Jeremiah 20:17 has 4 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Job 3:10–11 (5 votes) and Job 10:18–19 (5 votes). 16 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Genesis 30 to Jonah 4.
Which verses does Jeremiah 20:17 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Job 3:10–115 votes
For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes. Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
- Job 10:18–195 votes
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me! If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Job 3:163 votes
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
- Ecclesiastes 6:33 votes
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Which verses point to Jeremiah 20:17?
The 10 strongest of 16.