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Job 3:16 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. "
Job 3:16
Verse in Context
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With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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From This Chapter
Job 3:1
"After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day."
Job 3:2
"And Job spake, and said,"
Job 3:3
"Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived."
Job 3:4
"Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine"
Job 3:5
"Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify"
Job 3:6
"As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months."
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