Job 3:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁶ or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; As infants which never saw light.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Or [why] was I not a miscarriage, hidden and put away, as infants who never saw light?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Or why wasn’t I like a buried miscarried infant, like babies who never see light?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ or, like a hidden miscarriage, I should not have continued, just like those who, 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

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.

Psalm 58:9

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

Yea, better is he than both they, 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 a 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.

1 Corinthians 15:8

And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.