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Jeremiah 20

Jer. 20:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Cursed
'arar (Hebrew #779)
to execrate
KJV usage: X bitterly curse.
Pronounce: aw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
c be the day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
wherein I was born
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
: let not the day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
wherein my mother
'em (Hebrew #517)
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like 1)
KJV usage: dam, mother, X parting.
Pronounce: ame
Origin: a primitive word
bare
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
me be blessed
barak (Hebrew #1288)
to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (God or the king, as treason)
KJV usage: X abundantly, X altogether, X at all, blaspheme, bless, congratulate, curse, X greatly, X indeed, kneel (down), praise, salute, X still, thank.
Pronounce: baw-rak'
Origin: a primitive root
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Jer. 15:10• 10Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole land! I have not lent on usury, nor have they lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me. (Jer. 15:10)
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Job 3:1• 1After this Job opened his mouth{HR}and cursed his day; (Job 3:1)
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Jer. 15:10• 10Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole land! I have not lent on usury, nor have they lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me. (Jer. 15:10)
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Job 3:3‑16• 3Perish the day wherein I was born,{HR}And the night that said, A man is conceived.
 4That day! be it darkness;{HR}Let not God from above ask after it;{HR}And let not light shine upon it;
 5Let darkness and death-shade reclaim it;{HR}Let clouds tabernacle on it;{HR}Let darkenings of the day affright it.
 6That night! thick darkness seize on it;{HR}Let it not be joined to the days of the year;{HR}Let it not come into the number of the months.
 7Lo, that night! let it be barren;{HR}Let no shout of joy come into it;
 8Let cursers of days curse it,{HR}Who are prepared to rouse leviathan.
 9The stars of its twilight be dark;{HR}Let it look for light but [have] none,{HR}And let it not gaze on the eyelids of the dawn;
 10Because it shut not the doors of my [mother’s] belly,{HR}And hid sorrow from mine eyes.
 11Why did I not die from the womb—{HR}Come forth from the belly, and expire?
 12Why did the knees anticipate me,{HR}And why the breasts that I should suck?
 13For now I had lain, and been quiet,{HR}I had slept, and then had there been rest for me,
 14With kings and counselors of the earth,{HR}Who built ruins for themselves;
 15Or with princes that had gold,{HR}Who filled their houses with silver;
 16Or, as a hidden abortion, I should not be,{HR}As infants [that] never saw light: (Job 3:3‑16)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Cursed be the day wherein I was born; let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed!

W. Kelly Translation

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Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.