Bible verse
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
Job 3:16 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 3.
12 Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
13 For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
16 Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
17 There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
18 The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
19 Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
20 Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
KJV
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
ASV
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
ERV
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
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