Job 3:16
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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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.
20[Are] not my days few? cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,
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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.
11¶ Why 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:
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4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
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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?
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17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, [neither] hath he covered the darkness from my face.
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6He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.
- Ps 139:15-162 verses73%
15My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, [and] curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
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26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
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4As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God [was] upon my tabernacle;
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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!
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17There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
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14For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
15¶ If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend [against] the generation of thy children.
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14¶ Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
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23[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
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1¶ I [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.
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5Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
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13If I wait, the grave [is] mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
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3For I was my father's son, tender and only [beloved] in the sight of my mother.
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12Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee].