Job 3:16
Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
Bible in Basic English
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, and whose houses were full of silver;
17There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.
Cross References
Job 10:19And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.
Psalms 58:9\58:8\Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time 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 →