Job 3:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like an infant that never sees the 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ 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

and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 3:15

or with princes who have gold, who fill their houses with silver.

Job 3:17

There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.

Psalm 58:8

Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.

Psalm 58:9

Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!

Ecclesiastes 4:3

but better than both is the one who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

1 Corinthians 15:8

Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.