Job 3:16
What does Job 3:16 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 3:16 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants--they have not seen light.)
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that, being conceived, have not seen the light.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Corinthians 15:8
and last of all, as to the child untimely born, he appeared to me also.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
- Psalms 58:8
Let them beas a snail which melteth and passeth away, Likethe untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.
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