Job 3:16

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 58:8 : 8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
  • 1 Cor 15:8 : 8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.

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  • Job 10:18-20
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    18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

    19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

    20Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Job 3:9-15
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    9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

    10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

    11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

    12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

    13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

    14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

    15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

  • Job 3:3-4
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    3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.

    18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

  • 17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.

  • 6He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

  • Ps 139:15-16
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    15My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

    16Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

  • 26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

  • Job 29:3-4
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    3When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

    4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

  • 13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

  • 17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

  • Ps 73:14-15
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    14For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

    15If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

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

  • Job 31:15-16
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    15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

    16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

  • Lam 3:1-2
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    1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

    2He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

  • 5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

  • 13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

  • Ezek 16:4-5
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    4And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

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    9But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.

    10I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.

  • 3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

  • 20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

  • 3If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

  • 16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

  • 18(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

  • 3For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

  • 24When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

  • 3Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

  • 22A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

  • 3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

  • 15And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

  • 3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

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