I wish I had never existed but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
Job 3:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Or why was I not hidden like a miscarried child, like infants who never see daylight? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; As infants which never saw light. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Or [why] was I not a miscarriage, hidden and put away, as infants who never saw light? American Standard Version (1901) Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light. Common English Bible Or why wasn’t I like a buried miscarried infant, like babies who never see light? Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light. |
I wish I had never existed but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
There the wicked cease to make trouble, and there the weary find rest.
But better than either of them is the one who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Last of all, as to one born at the wrong time, , he also appeared to me.