If only I had never come into being, or been carried from womb to grave.
Job 3:16 - Tree of Life Version Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn, like 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. |
If only I had never come into being, or been carried from womb to grave.
There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.
Let them flow away like water that runs off. When he bends his bow, let the arrows be cut off.
Like a slug melting away as it slithers, like a woman’s miscarriage, may they never see the sun.
Yet better than both is one who has not yet been, who has never seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Even if a man should father a hundred children and live many years, however many the days of his years may be, yet his soul is never satisfied with his prosperity and he does not have a proper burial, then I say that it is better for the stillborn than him.