Job 3:16
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
KJV
aut sicut abortivum absconditum non subsisterem, vel qui concepti non viderunt lucem.
Vulgate
ἢ ὥσπερ ἔκτρωμα ἐκπορευόμενον ἐκ μήτρας μητρός, ἢ ὥσπερ νήπιοι οἳ οὐκ εἶδον φῶς.
LXX
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
ASV
א֤וֹ כְ/נֵ֣פֶל טָ֭מוּן לֹ֣א אֶהְיֶ֑ה כְּ֝/עֹלְלִ֗ים לֹא רָ֥אוּ אֽוֹר
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
א֣וֹ
'v
conjunction · 311×
א֣וֹר
'vr
noun · 120×
הָ
h
noun · 20×
הוּ
hv
verb · 31×
יְהִי֙
yhy
verb · 3549×
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
נָּֽפֶל
npl
noun · 3×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:8 — And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
- Eccl 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
- Eccl 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
- Jer 20:17 — Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
- Job 33:28 — He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
- Ps 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.
- Ps 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.