Job 3:16
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
Majority Standard Bible
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 who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
17There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
Cross References
Job 10:19If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.
Ecclesiastes 6:3A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off 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 →