Job 3:16

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 58:8 : 8 [ Let them be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away, [Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
  • 1 Cor 15:8 : 8 and last of all, as to the [child] untimely born, he appeared to me also.

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