Job 3:16

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Or why was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, either as young children which neuer sawe the light?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 58:8 : 8 Let them creepe away lyke a snayle that foorthwith consumeth to naught: or lyke the vntimely fruite of a woman, let them not see the sunne.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget a hundred children, and lyue many yeres, so that his dayes are many in number, and yet can not enioy his good, neither be buryed: as for him I say, that vntymely birth is better then he.
  • 1 Cor 15:8 : 8 And last of all he was seene of me, as of one borne out of due tyme.

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  • Job 10:18-20
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    18 Wherfore hast thou brought me out of the wombe? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seene me,

    19 And that I were as though I had not ben, but brought from the wombe to the graue.

    20 Are not my dayes fewe? Let him then leaue of fro me, and let me a lone, that I may comfort my selfe a litle,

  • Job 3:9-15
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    9 Let the starres of that night be dimme thorowe darkenesse of it, let it loke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day:

    10 Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hyd sorowe from myne eyes.

    11 Alas why died I not in the birth? why dyd not I perishe assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe?

    12 Why set they me vpon their knees? why gaue they me sucke with their brestes?

    13 Then should I nowe haue lyen stil, I shoulde haue slept, and ben at rest,

    14 Lyke as the kinges and lordes of the earth, which haue buylded them selues speciall places,

    15 Or as the princes that haue had golde, and their houses full of siluer:

  • Job 3:3-4
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    3 Let the day perishe wherin I was borne, and the night in the whiche it was sayd, There is a man childe conceaued.

    4 The same day be turned to darknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, neither let the light shyne vpon it:

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17 Why sluest thou not me assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe? or that my mother had ben my graue her selfe, that the byrth might not haue come out, but remayned still in her?

    18 Wherefore came I foorth of my mothers wombe? to haue experience of labour and sorowe, and to leade my lyfe with shame?

  • 17 Because I am not cut of before the darkenesse, neither hath he couered the cloude fro my face.

  • 6 He hath set me in darknesse, as they that be dead for euer.

  • Ps 139:15-16
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    15 The substaunce of my body was not hyd from thee: when I was made in secrete and fashioned with distinct members in my mothers wombe.

    16 Thyne eyes dyd see me when I was most imperfect: and in thy booke were written euery day of them wherin the partes of my body were shaped, and no one of them were knowen vnto thee.

  • 26 Was I not happy? Had I not quietnesse? Was I not in rest? And nowe commeth such miserie vpon me.

  • Job 29:3-4
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    3 When his light shined vpon my head, when I went after the same light and shining, euen through the darknesse:

    4 As it stoode with me when I was young, when God prospered my house:

  • 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, & keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past, and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me.

  • 17 There must the wicked ceasse from their tyrannie, and there such as laboured valiauntly be at rest:

  • Ps 73:14-15
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    14 All the day long I haue ben scourged: and chastened euery mornyng.

    15 If I shoulde say that I woulde iudge after this sort: lo then I shoulde condempne the generation of thy children.

  • 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was borne, vnhappy be the day wherein my mother brought me foorth.

  • 23 From whom their endes are hyd, and consealed by God?

  • Job 31:15-16
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    15 He that fashioned me in my mothers wombe, made he not him also? were we not both shapen a like in our mothers bodies?

    16 If I denied the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the wydow to wayte in vayne:

  • Lam 3:1-2
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    1 I am the man that thorowe the rodde of his wrath haue experience of miserie.

    2 He droue me foorth and led me, yea into darknesse, but not into light.

  • 5 Beholde, I was ingendred in iniquitie: and in sinne my mother conceaued me.

  • 13 Though I tary neuer so much, yet the graue is my house, & I haue made my bed in the darke.

  • Ezek 16:4-5
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    4 In the day of thy byrth when thou wast borne, the string of thy nauell was not cut of, thou wast not bathed in water to make thee cleane, thou wast not salted with salt, nor swadled in cloutes.

    5 No eye pitied thee to do any of these thinges for thee, for to haue compassion vpon thee: but thou wast vtterly cast out vpon the fielde in contempt of thy person in the day of thy byrth.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9 But thou art he that tokest me out of my mothers wombe: thou causedst me to trust in thee, suckyng my mothers breastes.

    10 I haue ben left vnto thee euer since I was borne: thou art my God euen from my mothers wombe.

  • 3 Euen so haue I laboured whole monethes long in vayne, and many a carefull night haue I tolde.

  • 20 Wherefore is the light geuen to hym that is in miserie? & lyfe vnto them that haue heauy heartes?

  • 3 If a man beget a hundred children, and lyue many yeres, so that his dayes are many in number, and yet can not enioy his good, neither be buryed: as for him I say, that vntymely birth is better then he.

  • 16 I was a father to the poore: and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.

  • 18 (For from my youth it hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue ben guyde to the wydowe)

  • 3 For when I my selfe was my fathers deare sonne, and tenderly beloued of my mother:

  • 24 When I was borne there were neither depthes nor springes of water.

  • 3 For who can keepe his owne counsaile so secrete but it shalbe knowen? Therefore haue I spoken that I vnderstoode not, euen the thinges that are to wonderfull for me, and passe myne vnderstanding.

  • 22 Yea a lande as darke as darknesse it selfe, and into the shadowe of death where is none order, but the light is there as darknesse.

  • 3 For the enemie hath persecuted my soule, he hath smitten my lyfe downe to the grounde: he hath layde me in darknesse as men that haue ben long dead.

  • 15 Where is then now my hope? or who hath considered the thing that I loke for?

  • 3 Doest thou open thyne eyes vpon such one, and bringest me into thy iudgement?

  • 12 Truely the darknesse shall not darken any thing from thee, and the night shalbe as lyghtsome as the day: darknesse and lyght to thee are both a lyke.