Jeremias 20:17
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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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- qui non me interfecit a vulva, ut fieret mihi mater mea sepulchrum, et vulva ejus conceptus æternus !
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ὅτι οὐκ ἀπέκτεινέν με ἐν μήτρᾳ καὶ ἐγένετό μοι ἡ μήτηρ μου τάφος μου καὶ ἡ μήτρα συλλήμψεως αἰωνίας.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא מוֹתְתַ֖נִי מֵרָ֑חֶם וַתְּהִי לִ֤י אִמִּי֙ קִבְרִ֔י וְרַחְמָ֖הֿ הֲרַ֥ת עוֹלָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Who. Septuagint, "because he (the Lord.; Du Hamel; Tirinus) slew me not in my mother's womb." (Haydock)
Syriac, Grotius, &c., explain the Hebrew in the same sense, though it may also agree with the Vulgate, from the womb, or as soon as I was born. O that I had never seen the light! (Calmet)
He abstracts from the effects of original sin. (Tirinus)
It is better not to exist than to be in constant misery, Matthew xxvi. (St. Jerome) (Worthington)
The prophet bewailed the abuse which was made of God's word, by unbelievers, ver. 8. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Jerome Against the Pelagians, Book II
xx. 14, 17, 18 . Cursed be the day wherein I was born, etc.