Job 3:16

Or perhaps I would have been stillborn, 1 like infants that never see the light. 1

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In The King James Version

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

In Context

15Or I would have been lying with princes who once had gold, 1 who had filled their houses with silver. 1

17There the wicked cease from trouble; 1 there the weary are at rest. 1

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Cross References

Job 10:19I would have been as though I had never existed; 1 I would have been carried from the womb to the grave. 1

Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the thorn's burning heat, 1 he will take them away with a whirlwind, the green thorns and the burning thorns alike. 1

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but if his heart is not satisfied with good and he is not buried, then I say that a baby that is born dead is better off than he is.

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 →

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