Job 3:16
or, like a hidden miscarriage, I should not have continued, just like those who, being conceived, have not seen the light.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
In Context
15either with princes, who possess gold and fill their houses with silver,
17There the impious cease from rebellion, and there the wearied in strength take rest.
Cross References
Job 10:19I should have been as if I had not been: transferred from the womb to the tomb.
Psalms 58:9And you, O Lord, will laugh at them. You will lead all the Gentiles to nothing.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man were to produce one hundred children, and to live for many years, and to attain to an age of many days, and if his soul were to make no use of the goods of his resources, and if he were lacking even a burial: concerning such a man, I declare that a miscarried child 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 →