Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw 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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Or [why] was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants [who] did not see [the] 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.
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 rulers possessing, gold, - Who had filled their houses with silver: 16 Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light: 17 There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil-worn are at rest:
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 58:8
Like a snail, which melteth away as it goeth, An untimely birth of a woman, which hath not seen the sun:
1 Corinthians 15:8
And, last of all, just as if unto the unseasonable birth, he appeared, even unto me;
Ecclesiastes 6:3
Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth!