Job 3:16
Or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother’s womb, 1 Or as infants who never saw light. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 rulers, whose gold was abundant, 1 Who filled their houses with silver: 1
17There the ungodly have burned out the fury of rage; 1 There the wearied in body rest. 1
Cross References
Job 10:19And I become as if I had not been? 1 For why was I not carried from the womb to the grave? 1
Psalms 58:9But thou, Lord, wilt laugh them to scorn; 1 Thou wilt utterly set at nought all the heathen. 1
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, 1 Yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, 1 Yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, 1 And also he have no burial; 1 I said, An untimely birth is better than he. 1
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 →