Job 3:16
Verse 16 of 26. The 3rd of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.
12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
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or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.Read Job 3:16 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Job 3:16
Rich and poor meet together in the grave; and there a hidden untimely birth (v. 16), a child that either never saw light or but just opened its eyes and peeped into the world, and, not liking it, closed them again and hastened out of it, lies as soft and easy, lies as high and safe, as kings and counsellors, and princes, that had gold.
Read Matthew Henry on Job 3:11–19: Job's Complaint of Life. (b. c. 1520.)
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