Job 3:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Job 3:16 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 58:8
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
1 Corinthians 15:8
And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-19)

Job, perhaps reflecting upon himself for his folly in wishing he had never been born, follows it, and thinks to mend it, with another, little better, that he had died as soon as he was born, which he enlarges upon in these verses. When our Saviour would set forth a very calamitous state of things he seems to allow such a saying as this, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. untimely birth--(Psa 58:8); preferable to the life of the restless miser (Ec 6:3-5).