Job 3:16

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

ASV

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

LSV

(Or I am not as a hidden abortion, || As infants—they have not seen light.)

YLT

(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants — they have not seen light.)

DBY

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

DRC

Or as a hidden untimely birth I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.

GNV

Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?

JPS

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.

LXXE

or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light.

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WLC

א֤וֹ כְנֵ֣פֶל טָ֭מוּן לֹ֣א אֶהְיֶ֑ה כְּ֝עֹלְלִ֗ים לֹא־רָ֥אוּ אֽוֹר׃We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.

LXX-Br

Ἢ ὥσπερ ἔκτρωμα ἐκπορευόμενον ἐκ μήτρας μητρὸς, ἢ ὥσπερ νήπιοι, οἳ οὐκ εἶδον φῶς·

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 58:8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
• Ecclesiastes 6:3A 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…
• 1 Corinthians 15:8And last of all He appeared to me also, as to one of untimely birth.

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