Job 3:16
Or as a hidden untimely birth I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 princes, that possess gold, and All their houses with silver:
17There the wicked cease from tumult, and there the wearied in strength are at rest.
Cross References
Job 10:19I should have been as if I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
Psalms 58:9Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born 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 →