Job 3:16

אוֹ כְנֵפֶל טָמוּן לֹא אֶהְיֶה כְּעֹלְלִים לֹא ־ רָאוּ אֽוֹר ׃

Hebrew Tanakh (Original)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15אוֹ עִם ־ שָׂרִים זָהָב לָהֶם הַֽמְמַלְאִים בָּתֵּיהֶם כָּֽסֶף ׃

17שָׁם רְשָׁעִים חָדְלוּ רֹגֶז וְשָׁם יָנוּחוּ יְגִיעֵי כֹֽחַ ׃

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Cross References

Job 10:19כַּאֲשֶׁר לֹא ־ הָיִיתִי אֶהְיֶה מִבֶּטֶן לַקֶּבֶר אוּבָֽל ׃

Psalms 58:9כְּמוֹ שַׁבְּלוּל תֶּמֶס יַהֲלֹךְ נֵפֶל אֵשֶׁת בַּל ־ חָזוּ שָֽׁמֶשׁ ׃

Ecclesiastes 6:3אִם ־ יוֹלִיד אִישׁ מֵאָה וְשָׁנִים רַבּוֹת יִֽחְיֶה וְרַב ׀ שֶׁיִּהְיוּ יְמֵֽי ־ שָׁנָיו וְנַפְשׁוֹ לֹא ־ תִשְׂבַּע מִן ־ הַטּוֹבָה וְגַם ־ קְבוּרָה לֹא ־ הָיְתָה לּוֹ אָמַרְתִּי טוֹב מִמֶּנּוּ הַנָּֽפֶל ׃

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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