Holy Scripture
Jeremiah 20:15
A church father on this verse
“How much dissatisfaction do we see that even the brief stages of our lives bring on us! The boy longs to be a young man. The young man counts the years when he will be older. The mature man, ungrateful for the blessing of being in the prime of life, eagerly desires the honor associated with old age. Thus, to all there…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
15Cursed be the man who brought the glad tidings to my father, saying, A male child is born to thee.
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In context
13Sing ye to the Lord, sing praise to him: for he has rescued the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
14Cursed be the day wherein I was born: the day wherein my mother brought me forth, let it not be blessed.
— Jeremiah 20:15 —
16Let that man rejoice as the cities which the Lord overthrew in wrath, and repented not: let him hear crying in the morning, and loud lamentation at noon;
17because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me.