Job 3:16
Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
In Context
15or with rulers who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
17There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
Cross References
Job 10:19I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man begets a hundred sons, and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:12-20
Job's Complaint of Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as… Read the whole commentary →