Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Or [why] was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants [who] did not see [the] light?
New American Standard Bible
As infants that never saw light.
King James Version
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Holman Bible
like infants who never see daylight?
International Standard Version
"Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like babies who never saw the light?
A Conservative Version
Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.
American Standard Version
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
Amplified
“Or like a miscarriage which is hidden and put away, I would not exist,
Like infants who never saw light.
Bible in Basic English
Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
Darby Translation
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.
Julia Smith Translation
Or as a hidden abortion I shall not be; as children they saw not light.
King James 2000
Or as a hidden untimely birth, I had not been; as infants who never saw light.
Modern King James verseion
or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have been, like infants who did not see light.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O that I utterly had no being, or were as a thing born out of time that is put aside, either as young children, which never saw the light.
NET Bible
Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?
New Heart English Bible
or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
The Emphasized Bible
Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light:
Webster
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
World English Bible
or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
Youngs Literal Translation
(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Wishes He Had Died
15 or with high officials {who have gold}, who fill up their houses [with] silver. 16 Or [why] was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants [who] did not see [the] light? 17 There [the] wicked cease from troubling, and there [the] {weary} are at rest;
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 58:8
[Let them be] like a snail [that] melts away [as] it goes; [like the] stillborn of woman [that] do not see [the] sun.
1 Corinthians 15:8
and last of all, as it were to one born at the wrong time, he appeared also to me.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
Even if a man fathers a hundred [children] and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, if his heart is not satisfied with {his prosperity} and {he does not receive a proper burial}, I deem the stillborn better than him.