Job 3:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 58:8 : 8 As a snail that melteth he goeth on, `As' an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, `Better than he `is' the untimely birth.'
  • 1 Cor 15:8 : 8 And last of all -- as to the untimely birth -- he appeared also to me,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 10:18-20
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    18And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.

    19As I had not been, I am, From the belly to the grave I am brought,

    20Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,

  • Job 3:9-15
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    81%

    9Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn.

    10Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.

    11Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp!

    12Wherefore have knees been before me? And what `are' breasts, that I suck?

    13For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept -- then there is rest to me,

    14With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.

    15Or with princes -- they have gold, They are filling their houses `with' silver.

  • Job 3:3-4
    2 verses
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    3Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: `A man-child hath been conceived.'

    4That day -- let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it.

  • Jer 20:17-18
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    17Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.

    18Why `is' this? from the womb I have come out, To see labour and sorrow, Yea, consumed in shame are my days!

  • 17For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.

  • 6In dark places He hath caused me to dwell, As the dead of old.

  • Ps 139:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth.

    16Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed -- And not one among them.

  • 26I was not safe -- nor was I quiet -- Nor was I at rest -- and trouble cometh!

  • Job 29:3-4
    2 verses
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    3In His causing His lamp to shine on my head, By His light I walk `through' darkness.

    4As I have been in days of my maturity, And the counsel of God upon my tent.

  • 13O that in Sheol Thou wouldst conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

  • 17There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.

  • Ps 73:14-15
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    14And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof `is' every morning.

    15If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

  • 14Cursed `is' the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed!

  • 23To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?

  • Job 31:15-16
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    15Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

    16If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

  • Lam 3:1-2
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    1I `am' the man `who' hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.

    2Me He hath led, and causeth to go `in' darkness, and without light.

  • 5Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

  • 13If I wait -- Sheol `is' my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.

  • Ezek 16:4-5
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    4As to thy nativity, in the day thou wast born, Thou -- thy navel hath not been cut, And in water thou wast not washed for ease, And thou hast not been salted at all, And thou hast not been swaddled at all.

    5No eye hath had pity on thee, to do to thee any of these, To have compassion on thee, And thou art cast on the face of the field, With loathing of thy person. In the day thou hast been born -- thou!

  • Ps 22:9-10
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    71%

    9For thou `art' He bringing me forth from the womb, Causing me to trust, On the breasts of my mother.

    10On Thee I have been cast from the womb, From the belly of my mother Thou `art' my God.

  • 3So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.

  • 20Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul?

  • 3If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, `Better than he `is' the untimely birth.'

  • 16A father I `am' to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.

  • 18(But from my youth He grew up with me as `with' a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)

  • 3For, a son I have been to my father -- tender, And an only one before my mother.

  • 24In there being no depths, I was brought forth, In there being no fountains heavy `with' waters,

  • 3`Who `is' this, hiding counsel without knowledge?' Therefore, I have declared, and understand not, Too wonderful for me, and I know not.

  • 22A land of obscurity as thick darkness, Death-shade -- and no order, And the shining `is' as thick darkness.'

  • 3For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.

  • 15And where `is' now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?

  • 3Also -- on this Thou hast opened Thine eyes, And dost bring me into judgment with Thee.

  • 12Also darkness hideth not from Thee, And night as day shineth, as `is' darkness so `is' light.