Job 3:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Or [why] was I not a miscarriage, hidden and put away, as infants who never saw light?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Or why wasn’t I like a buried miscarried infant, like babies who never see light?

Catholic Public Domain Version

or, like a hidden miscarriage, I should not have continued, just like those who, being conceived, have not seen the light.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.

Job 3:16 Cross References

Job 10:19

I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 3:15

Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:

Job 3:17

There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary be at rest

Psalm 58:8

Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away: Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

Psalm 58:9

Before your pots can feel the thorns, He shall take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

yea, better than them both did I esteem him which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man beget an hundred children and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

1 Corinthians 15:8

and last of all, as unto one born out of due time, he appeared to me also.