Job 3:16

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Or why was I not like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw the light?

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  • Ps 58:8 : 8 May they vanish like water that flows away; when they aim their arrows, may they be blunted.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 A man may father a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy life's good things and receives no proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
  • 1 Cor 15:8 : 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.

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