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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“Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants--they have not seen light.)”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 3:16 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 10:19If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Psalms 58:8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
- Psalms 58:9Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).