Job 3:16

God's Word

I would be buried like a stillborn baby. I would not exist. I would be like infants who never saw the light.

Cross References

Job 10:19

Then it would be as if I had never existed, as if I had been carried from the womb to the tomb.

Job 3:15

I would be with princes who had gold, who filled their homes with silver.

Job 3:17

There the wicked stop their raging. There the weary are able to rest.

Psalm 58:8

Let them become like a snail that leaves behind a slimy trail or like a stillborn child who never sees the sun.

Psalm 58:9

Let ⌞God⌟ sweep them away faster than a cooking pot is heated by burning twigs.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But the person who hasn’t been born yet is better off than both of them. He hasn’t seen the evil that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

Suppose a rich person wasn’t satisfied with good things ⌞while he was alive⌟ and didn’t even get an honorable burial ⌞after he died⌟. Suppose he had a hundred children and lived for many years. No matter how long he would have lived, it ⌞still⌟ would have been better for him to have been born dead.

1 Corinthians 15:8

Last of all, he also appeared to me. I’m like an aborted child ⌞who was given life⌟.