Job 3:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have existed; like infants who never saw light.

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  • Ps 58:8 : 8 As a snail that melts, 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 begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, yet his soul is not filled with good, and indeed he has no burial; I say, that a premature birth is better than he.
  • 1 Cor 15:8 : 8 And last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.

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    18 Why then have You brought me forth out of the womb? Oh, that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

    19 I 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,

  • Job 3:9-15
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    81%

    9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn:

    10 Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

    11 Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not expire when I came out of the belly?

    12 Why were there knees to receive me? Or why breasts that I should nurse?

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

    14 With kings and counselors of the earth, who built ruins for themselves;

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

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

    4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

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

    18 Why did I come forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

  • Job 23:17
    76%

    17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • Lam 3:6
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    6 He has set me in dark places, like those long dead.

  • Ps 139:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15 My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth.

    16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed; and in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.

  • Job 3:26
    72%

    26 I was not in safety, nor had I rest, nor was I quiet; yet trouble came.

  • Job 29:3-4
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    72%

    3 When His lamp shone upon my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;

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

  • Job 14:13
    72%

    13 Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

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    17 There the wicked cease from troubling; there the weary are at rest.

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    14 For all day long I have been plagued, and chastened every morning.

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    14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bore me be blessed.

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    23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

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

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

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    1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

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

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

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    9 But You are He who took me out of the womb; You made me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.

    10 I was cast upon You from the womb; You are my God from my mother’s belly.

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

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    20 Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

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    16 I was a father to the poor, and I searched out the case I did not know.

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    70%

    3 For the enemy has persecuted my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me dwell in darkness, like those long dead.

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    70%

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

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    3 And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

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    69%

    12 Yes, the darkness does not hide from You, but the night shines as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to You.