Because he slew me not... — The wish that he had never been born is uttered by the prophet in strange, bold language. It would have been better that the messenger that told that he was born had slain him before his birth, that his mother’s womb had been his grave, that she had never had strength to bring him forth. Thought, structure, even grammar are, in their abruptness and irregularities, alike significant of intense emotion.
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Jeremiah 20:17
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.