Job 3:16

Coverdale Bible (1535)

O that I vtterly had no beynge, or were as a thige borne out of tyme (that is put asyde) ether as yonge children, which neuer sawe the light.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 58:8 : 8 Let the cosume awaye like a snale, & like the vntymely frute of a woman, and let them not se the Sonne.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 Yf a man begett an hundreth children, and lyue many yeares, so that his dayes are many in nombre, and yet can not enioye his good, nether be buried: as for him I saye, that an vntymely byrth is better then he.
  • 1 Cor 15:8 : 8 Last of all was he sene of me also, as of one borne out of due tyme.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 10:18-20
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    18 Wherfore hast thou brought me out of my mothers wombe? O that I had perished, & that no eye had sene me.

    19 Yf they had caried me to my graue, as soone as I was borne, then shulde I be now, as though I had neuer bene.

    20 Shall not my short life come soone to an ende? O holde the fro me, let me alone, that I maye ease myself a litle:

  • Job 3:9-15
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    9 Let the starres be dymme thorow darcknesse of it. Let it loke for light, but let it se none, nether the rysynge vp of the fayre mornynge:

    10 because it shut not vp the wombe that bare me, ner hyd these sorowes fro myne eyes.

    11 Alas, why dyed I not in ye byrth? Why dyd not I perysh, as soone as I came out of my mothers wobe?

    12 Why set they me vpo yeir knees? Why gaue they me suck with their brestes?

    13 Then shulde I now haue lyen still, I shulde haue slepte, and bene at rest:

    14 like as the kynges ad lordes of ye earth, which buylde them selues speciall places:

    15 As the prynces that haue greate substaunce of golde, & their houses full of syluer.

  • Job 3:3-4
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    3 lost be that daye, wherin I was borne: and the night, in the which it was sayde: there is a manchilde conceaued.

    4 The same daye be turned to darcknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, nether be shyned vpo wt light:

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17 because he slewe me not, as soone as I came out off my mothers wombe, and because my mother was not my graue hirselff, that the byrth might not haue come out, but remayned still in her.

    18 Wherfore came I forth off my mothers wombe? To haue experience of laboure and sorowe? and to lede my life with shame?

  • 17 Thus can not I get out of darcknesse, the cloude hath so couered my face.

  • 6 He hath set me in darcknesse, as they that be deed for euer.

  • Ps 139:15-16
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    15 Thine eyes se myne vnparfitnesse, they stonde all writte i thy boke:

    16 my dayes were fashioned, when as yet there was not one of them

  • 26 Was I not happy? Had I not quyetnesse? Was I not in rest? And now commeth soch mysery vpon me.

  • Job 29:3-4
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    3 when his light shyned vpon my heade: whe I wente after the same light & shyne eue thorow the darcknesse.

    4 As it stode wt me, whe I was welthy & had ynough: whe God prospered my house:

  • 13 O that thou woldest kepe me, and hyde me in the hell, vntill thy wrath were stilled: & to appoynte me a tyme, wherin thou mightest remembre me.

  • 17 There must the wicked ceasse from their tyranny, there soch as are ouerlaboured, be at rest:

  • Ps 73:14-15
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    14 Wherfore shulde I be then punyshed daylie, & be chastened euery mornynge?

    15 Yee I had allmost also sayde euen as they: but lo, then shulde I haue condemned the generacion of thy children.

  • 14 Cursed be the daye, wherein I was borne: vnhappie be ye daye, where in my mother brought me forth.

  • 23 To the man whose waye is hyd, which God kepeth backe from him.

  • 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 shappen alyke in oure mothers bodies?

    16 When the poore desyred enythinge at me, haue I denyed it them? Haue I caused ye wyddowe stonde waytinge for me in vayne?

  • Lam 3:1-2
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    1 I am the ma, that (thorow the rodd of his wrath) haue experiece of misery.

    2 He droue me forth, and led me: yee into darcknesse, but not in to light.

  • 5 Beholde, I was borne in wickednesse, and in synne hath my mother conceaued me.

  • 13 Though I tary neuer so moch, yet the graue is my house, and I must make my bed in the darcke.

  • Ezek 16:4-5
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    71%

    4 In ye daye of thy byrth when thou wast borne, ye stringe of thy nauel was not cut of: thou wast not bathed in water to make the clene: Thou wast nether rubbed wt salt, ner swedled in cloutes:

    5 No man regarded the so moch, as to do eny of these thinges for ye, or to shewe the soch fauoure, but thou wast vtterly cast out vpon ye felde, yee despised wast thou in the daye of thy byrth.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9 But thou art he that toke me out of my mothers wobe: thou wast my hope, when I hanged yet vpon my mothers brestes.

    10 I haue bene left vnto the euer sence I was borne, thou art my God, eue fro my mothers wombe.

  • 3 Euen so haue I laboured whole monethes longe (but in vayne) and many a carefull night haue I tolde.

  • 20 Wherfore is the light geuen, to him that is in mysery? and life vnto them, that haue heuy hertes?

  • 3 Yf a man begett an hundreth children, and lyue many yeares, so that his dayes are many in nombre, and yet can not enioye his good, nether be buried: as for him I saye, that an vntymely byrth is better then he.

  • 16 I was a father vnto the poore, & whe I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligetly.

  • 18 (for mercy grewe vp with me fro my youth, & compassion fro my mothers wombe.)

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

  • 24 When I was borne, there were nether depthes ner springes of water.

  • 3 For who can kepe his owne councell so secrete, but it shall be knowne? Therfore haue I spoken vnwysely, seynge these thinges are so hye, and passe myne vnderstondinge.

  • 22 yee into that darck clowdy londe & deadly shadowe, where as is no ordre, but terrible feare as in the darcknesse.

  • 3 For the enemie persecuteth my soule, he smyteth my life downe to the grounde, he layeth me in the darcknesse, as the deed men of the worlde.

  • 15 What helpeth then my longe tarienge? Or, who wil fulfill the thinge, that I loke for?

  • 3 Thinkest thou it now well done, to open thine eyes vpon soch one, and to brynge me before the in iudgment?

  • 12 For my reynes are thyne, thou hast couered me in my mothers wombe.