Job 3:16

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?”

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BSBPD

“Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants--they have not seen light.)”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 3:16 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 10:19If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
  2. Psalms 58:8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
  3. Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
  4. Ecclesiastes 4:3But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
  5. Ecclesiastes 6:3A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
  6. 1 Corinthians 15:8And last of all He appeared to me also, as to one of untimely birth.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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