Job 3:16
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:
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not 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
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:8
And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
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