Job 3:16
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants who never saw light.
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Referenced Verses
- Ps 58:8 : 8 Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, Like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
- Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
- 1 Cor 15:8 : 8 and last of all, as to the child born at the wrong time, he appeared to me also.
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19I should have been as though I had not been. I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
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9Let the stars of the twilight of it be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, Neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
10Because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
11"Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?
13For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
14With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;
15Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:
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18Why came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
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17Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
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6He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
- Ps 139:15-162 verses73%
15My frame wasn't hidden from you, When I was made in secret, Woven together in the depths of the earth.
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- Job 29:3-42 verses72%
3When his lamp shone on my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;
4As I was in the ripeness of my days, When the friendship of God was in my tent;
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13"Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, 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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17There the wicked cease from troubling; There the weary are at rest.
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14For all day long have I been plagued, And punished every morning.
15If I had said, "I will speak thus;" Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
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14Cursed be the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
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23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, Whom God has hedged in?
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2He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
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5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.
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13If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,
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4As for your birth, in the day you were born your navel was not cut, neither were you washed in water to cleanse you; you weren't salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
5No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, for that your person was abhorred, in the day that you were born.
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9But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust at my mother's breasts.
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3For I was a son to my father, Tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
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24When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no springs abounding with water.
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22The land dark as midnight, Of the shadow of death, without any order, Where the light is as midnight.'"
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15Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?
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3Do you open your eyes on such a one, And bring me into judgment with you?
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