Job 3:16
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Revised Version 1895
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 princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
Cross References
Job 10:19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget an hundred children and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth 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 →