Job 3:16
There the resha'im cease from troubling; 1 and there the weary are at rest. 1
Orthodox Jewish 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 as a hidden stillborn — I had not been! 1 — as olelim which never saw ohr. 1
17There the asirim (prisoners, captives) rest together; 1 they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 1
Cross References
Job 10:19I should have been as though I had never been; 1 I should have been carried from the beten straight to the kever. 1
Psalms 58:9As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away; 1 like the stillborn child of an isha, that they may not see the shemesh. 1
Ecclesiastes 6:3If an ish beget a hundredfold, and live shanim rabbot, so that rav be the yamim of his shanim, and his nefesh be not filled with hatovah, and also that he have no kevurah (grave); I say, that a nefel (stillborn) 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 →