Job 3:16
Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?
Geneva Bible 1599
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 the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer.
Cross References
Job 10:19And that I were as I had not bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue!
Psalms 58:9As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of thornes: so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde in his wrath.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget an hundreth children and liue many yeeres, and the dayes of his yeeres be multiplied, and his soule be not satisfied with good things, and he be not buried, I say that an vntimely fruite is better then 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 →