Verse 16

Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 58:8 : 8 Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
  • 1 Cor 15:8 : 8 And last of all, as by one whose birth was out of the right time, he was seen by me.