Job 3:16

Translations

Modern

Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

Traditional

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Literal

Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like infants who had not seen the light?

Latin

…aut sicut abortivum absconditum non subsisterem, vel qui concepti non viderunt lucem.

Original

Hebrew

English

Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

Notes

Job 3:11–24

Job's language shifts from wishing he was never born to grief. He goes from hating life towards an attraction for death. Job asks "why" seven times, as he has grief for his situation (3:11, 12, 16, 20, 23; see Psalms 10:1; 22:1; Jeremiah 20:18; Lamentations 5:20).

Job 3:1–26

Job's outbreak of emotion did not mean his integrity failed under pressure (42:7–8; James 5:11). The prophets Elijah and Jeremiah, both men of God, exaggerated with similar language (1 Kings 19:4; Jeremiah 20:14–18).

Theme notes and profiles

Complaints Life After Death

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

Psalm 58:8
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
1 Corinthians 15:8
And last of all He appeared to me also, as to one of untimely birth.

Glossary

Book of Job Miscarriage

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Dead (People): Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Despondency: General Scriptures Concerning

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