Job 3:16
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
BSB
ASV
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
KJV
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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1 Corinthians 15:8And last of all He appeared to me also, as to one of untimely birth.
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Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you yourselves not my workmanship in the Lord?
‘But get up and stand on your feet. For I have appeared to you to appoint you as a servant and as a witness of what you have seen from Me and what I…
One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking; do not be silent.
and saw the Lord saying to me, ‘Hurry! Leave Jerusalem quickly, because the people here will not accept your testimony about Me.’
So Ananias went to the house, and when he arrived, he placed his hands on Saul. “Brother Saul,” he said, “the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming…
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Psalms 58:8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
leads to
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial,…
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Ecclesiastes 6:3A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial,…
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He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.