Job 3:16
Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 rulers possessing, gold,—Who had filled their houses with silver:
17There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil-worn are at rest:
Cross References
Job 10:19As though I had not been, should I have become,—from the womb to the grave, might I have been borne.
Psalms 58:9Before your kettles can perceive the [kindled] bramble, Be he green or be he withered, he shall be swept away.
Ecclesiastes 6:3Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth!
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 →