Job 3:16
Why wasn't I a miscarriage, buried in secret, a baby who never saw the light?
Free Bible 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 noblemen who collected gold and filled their houses with silver.
Cross References
Job 10:19It would have been better if I had never existed, taken straight from the womb to the grave.
Psalms 58:9Before the cooking pot is hot from burning thorns, whether fresh or dry, God will blow them away.
Ecclesiastes 6:3A man could have one hundred children, and grow old, but it wouldn't matter how long his life was if he couldn't enjoy it and at the end receive a decent burial. I would say that a stillborn child would be better off than him.
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 →