Job 3:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 58:8 : 8 Let them consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget an hundreth children and liue many yeeres, and the dayes of his yeeres be multiplied, & his soule be not satisfied with good things, and he be not buried, I say that an vntimely fruite is better then he.
  • 1 Cor 15:8 : 8 And last of all he was seene also of me, as of one borne out of due time.

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  • Job 10:18-20
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    18 Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!

    19 And that I were as I had not bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue!

    20 Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,

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

    10 Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes.

    11 Why died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe?

    12 Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?

    13 For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,

    14 With the Kings & counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places:

    15 Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer.

  • Job 3:3-4
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    3 Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night when it was sayde, There is a man childe conceiued.

    4 Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17 Because he hath not slaine me, euen from the wombe, or that my mother might haue bene my graue, or her wobe a perpetual conception.

    18 How is it, that I came forth of the wombe, to see labour and sorowe, that my dayes shoulde be consumed with shame?

  • 17 For I am not cut off in darknesse, but he hath hid the darkenesse from my face.

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

  • Ps 139:15-16
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    73%

    15 My bones are not hid from thee, though I was made in a secret place, and facioned beneath in the earth.

    16 Thine eyes did see me, when I was without forme: for in thy booke were all things written, which in continuance were facioned, when there was none of them before.

  • 26 I had no peace, neither had I quietnesse, neither had I rest, yet trouble is come.

  • Job 29:3-4
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    3 When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse,

    4 As I was in the dayes of my youth: when Gods prouidence was vpon my tabernacle:

  • 13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, and keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath were past, and wouldest giue me terme, and remember me.

  • 17 The wicked haue there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest.

  • Ps 73:14-15
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    14 For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning.

    15 If I say, I will iudge thus, beholde the generation of thy children: I haue trespassed.

  • 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was borne: and let not the day wherein my mother bare me, be blessed.

  • 23 Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

  • Job 31:15-16
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    15 He that hath made me in the wombe, hath he not made him? hath not he alone facioned vs in the wombe?

    16 If I restrained the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile,

  • Lam 3:1-2
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    1 I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.

    2 He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light.

  • 5 Beholde, I was borne in iniquitie, and in sinne hath my mother conceiued me.

  • 13 Though I hope, yet the graue shall bee mine house, and I shal make my bed in the darke.

  • Ezek 16:4-5
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    4 And in thy natiuitie whe thou wast borne, thy nauell was not cut: thou wast not washed in water to soften thee: thou wast not salted with salt, nor swadled in cloutes.

    5 None eye pitied thee to do any of these vnto thee, for to haue compassion vpon thee, but thou wast cast out in the open fielde to the contempt of thy person in ye day that thou wast borne.

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    9 But thou didest draw me out of ye wombe: thou gauest me hope, euen at my mothers breasts.

    10 I was cast vpon thee, euen from ye wombe: thou art my God from my mothers belly.

  • 3 So haue I had as an inheritance the moneths of vanitie, and painefull nights haue bene appointed vnto me.

  • 20 Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?

  • 3 If a man beget an hundreth children and liue many yeeres, and the dayes of his yeeres be multiplied, & his soule be not satisfied with good things, and he be not buried, I say that an vntimely fruite is better then he.

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

  • 18 (For from my youth hee hath growen vp with me as with a father, and from my mothers wombe I haue bene a guide vnto her)

  • 3 For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother,

  • 24 When there were no depths, was I begotten, when there were no fountaines abounding with water.

  • 3 Who is hee that hideth counsell without knowledge? therefore haue I spoken that I vnderstood not, euen things too wonderfull for me, and which I knew not.

  • 22 Into a land, I say, darke as darknes it selfe, and into the shadow of death, where is none order, but the light is there as darkenesse.

  • 3 For the enemie hath persecuted my soule: he hath smitten my life downe to the earth: he hath layde me in the darkenes, as they that haue bene dead long agoe:

  • 15 Where is then now mine hope? or who shal consider the thing, that I hoped for?

  • 3 And yet thou openest thine eyes vpon such one, and causest me to enter into iudgement with thee.

  • 12 Yea, the darkenes hideth not from thee: but the night shineth as the day: the darkenes and light are both alike.