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.

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  • Ecclesiastes 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 context
  • 1 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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