Parallel Verses
World English Bible
or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who 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.
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)
Interlinear
`owlel
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 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light. 17 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 58:8
Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
1 Corinthians 15:8
and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.
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 filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he: