Parallel Verses
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.
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 princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
16
As infants that never saw light.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 58:8
Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
1 Corinthians 15:8
Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
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 satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.