I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Job 3:16 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light. 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 should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.