Devine Scripture

Job 3:16

Job chapter 3 · verse 16 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

Context

v.15Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:

v.16This passage

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

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.