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Job 3:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I wish I had been born dead and then buried, never to see the light of day.

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and been carried to the grave without ever breathing.

and with rulers once rich with silver and gold.

In the world of the dead, the wicked and the weary rest without a worry.

Let them dry up like snails or be like a child that dies before seeing the sun.

Wipe them out quicker than a pot can be heated by setting thorns on fire.

But those who have never been born are better off than anyone else, because they have never seen the terrible things that happen on this earth.”

You may live a long time and have a hundred children. But a child born dead is better off than you, unless you enjoy life and have a decent burial.

Finally, he appeared to me, even though I am like someone who was born at the wrong time.