Job 3:16 KJV
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Matthew Henry
- Job complainingJob complained of those present at his birth, for their tender attention to him. No creature comes into the world so helpless as man. God's power and...
Parallel Passages
- Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- Psalms 58:8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
- 1 Corinthians 15:8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
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Topics
- Afflictions and adversities Unclassified scriptures relating to
- Birthday Cursed
- Dead (people) Unclassified scriptures relating to
- Death Job
- Despondency General scriptures concerning
- Job Complaints of, and replies by his three friends to
- Life Job
- Murmuring Job
- Presumption Job, in cursing the day of his birth
Strong’s Numbers
- Or as an hidden טָמַן ṭâman
- untimely birth נֶפֶל nephel
- I had not been; as infants עוֹלֵל ʻôwlêl
- never saw רָאָה râʼâh
- light אוֹר ʼôwr
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