I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Job 3:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which 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.
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.