Job 3:16
(Or I am not as a hidden abortion, || As infants—they have not seen light.)
Literal Standard 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 princes—they have gold, || They are filling their houses [with] silver.
17There the wicked have ceased troubling, || And there the wearied rest in power.
Cross References
Job 10:19I am as [if] I had not been, || I am brought from the belly to the grave,
Psalms 58:9Before your pots discern the bramble, || As living, He whirls away in His burning anger.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man begets one hundred, and lives many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he has not had a grave, I have said, “Better than he [is] the untimely birth.”
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 →