Job 3:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

Cross References

Job 10:19

And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

Job 3:15

Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;

Job 3:17

There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

Psalm 58:8

Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

Psalm 58:9

Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

1 Corinthians 15:8

And last of all, as by one whose birth was out of the right time, he was seen by me.