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Selected Verse: Job 3:16 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 3:16 |
Strong Concordance |
Or as an hidden [02934] untimely birth [05309] I had not been; as infants [05768] which never saw [07200] light [0216]. |
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King James |
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| untimely birth-- (Psa 58:8); preferable to the life of the restless miser (Ecc 6:3-5). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Or as an hidden untimely birth - As an abortion which is hid, or concealed; that is, which is soon removed from the sight. So the Psalmist, Psa 58:8 :
As a snail which melteth, let thom dissolve;
As the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Septuagint ἔκτρωμα ektrōma, the same word which is used by Paul in Co1 15:8, with reference to himself; see the notes at that place.
I had not been - I should have perished; I should not have been a man, as I now am, subject to calamity. The meaning is, that he would have been taken away and concealed, as such an untimely birth is, and that he would never have been numbered among the living and the suffering.
As infants which never saw light - Job expresses here no opinion of their future condition, or on the question whether such infants had immortal souls. He is simply saying that his lot would have been as theirs was, and that he would have been saved from the sorrows which he now experienced. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Hidden - Undiscerned and unregarded. Born before the due time. Been - In the land of the living. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Or as a hidden untimely birth - An early miscarriage, which was scarcely perceptible by the parent herself; and in this case he had not been - he had never had the distinguishable form of a human being, whether male or female.
As infants - Little ones; those farther advanced in maturity, but miscarried long before the time of birth. |
3 If a man [0376] beget [03205] an hundred [03967] children, and live [02421] many [07227] years [08141], so that the days [03117] of his years [08141] be many [07227], and his soul [05315] be not filled [07646] with good [02896], and also that he have no burial [06900]; I say [0559], that an untimely birth [05309] is better [02896] than he.
4 For he cometh [0935] in with vanity [01892], and departeth [03212] in darkness [02822], and his name [08034] shall be covered [03680] with darkness [02822].
5 Moreover he hath not seen [07200] the sun [08121], nor known [03045] any thing: this [02088] hath more rest [05183] than [02088] the other.
8 As a snail [07642] which melteth [08557], let every one of them pass away [01980]: like the untimely birth [05309] of a woman [0802], that they may not see [02372] the sun [08121].
8 And [1161] last [2078] of all [3956] he was seen [3700] of me also [2504], as [5619] of one born out of due time [1626].
8 As a snail [07642] which melteth [08557], let every one of them pass away [01980]: like the untimely birth [05309] of a woman [0802], that they may not see [02372] the sun [08121].