Job 3:16
(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants — they have not seen light.)
Young's Literal Translation
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 — they have gold, They are filling their houses [with] silver.
17There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.
Cross References
Job 10:19As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,
Psalms 58:9Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, 'Better than he [is] the 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 →