I wish I had never lived.\par I wish I had been carried\par from my mother’s womb\par straight to the grave.\par
Job 3:16 - Easy To Read Version Why wasn’t I a child who died at birth\par and was buried in the ground?\par I wish I were like a baby\par that never saw the light of day.\par 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 lived.\par I wish I had been carried\par from my mother’s womb\par straight to the grave.\par
I wish I were buried with those rulers\par that filled their graves {\cf2\super [10]} \par with gold and silver!\par
Bad people stop making trouble\par when they are in the grave.\par And people who are tired\par find rest in the grave.\par
May they be like snails melting away\par as they move.\par May they be like a baby\par that was born dead\par and never saw the light of day.\par
May they be destroyed quickly like thorns\par that burn too fast to heat the pot.\par
And things are even better \{for people that die at birth! Why? Because\} they never saw the evil that is done in this world. {\cf2\super [20]}
A person might live a long time. And that person might have 100 children. But if that person is not satisfied with those good things, and if no one remembers him after his death, then I say that a baby that dies at birth is better off than that man.
Last of all, Christ showed himself to me. \{I was different,\} like a baby that is born before the normal time.