Job 3:16
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 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 58:9(58-10) Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul have not enough of good, and moreover he have 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 →