Job 3:16
14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
17 There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
18 The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
- KJV
- Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
- WEB
- or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
- ASV
- Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
- DARBY
- Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.
- BLB
- Or [why] was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like infants [who] had not seen the light?
- ÅB
- eller jeg var nå ikke til, slik som et nedgravd, ufullbåret foster, lik barn som aldri så lyset.
- OTB
- Eller hvorfor ble jeg ikke skjult som et dødfødt barn,
som spedbarn som aldri så lyset? - B1930
- eller jeg var nu ikke til, likesom et nedgravd, ufullbåret foster, lik barn som aldri så lyset.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 58:8
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 6:3
A 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.
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:8
And last of all He appeared to me also, as to one of untimely birth.
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