Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Or as a hidden abortion I shall not be; as children they saw not 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.
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 chiefs, gold to them, filling their houses with silver: 16 Or as a hidden abortion I shall not be; as children they saw not light. 17 There the unjust ceased to be angry, and the weary in strength shall rest.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 58:8
As a snail shall melt away he shall go: fire fell; they saw not the sun.
1 Corinthians 15:8
And last of all exactly as an abortive, was he also seen by me.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man shall beget a hundred, and live many years, and a multitude shall be the days of his years, and his soul shall not be satisfied from good, and also there was no burial to him; I said, Good above him an abortion.