Job 3:16
Modern Translations
New International Version
Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?

New Living Translation
Why wasn’t I buried like a stillborn child, like a baby who never lives to see the light?

English Standard Version
Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?

Berean Study Bible
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

New American Standard Bible
“Or like a miscarriage which is hidden, I would not exist, As infants that never saw light.

NASB 1995
"Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be, As infants that never saw light.

NASB 1977
“Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be, As infants that never saw light.

Amplified Bible
“Or like a miscarriage which is hidden and put away, I would not exist, Like infants who never saw light.

Christian Standard Bible
Or why was I not hidden like a miscarried child, like infants who never see daylight?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Or why was I not hidden like a miscarried child, like infants who never see daylight?

Contemporary English Version
I wish I had been born dead and then buried, never to see the light of day.

Good News Translation
or sleeping like a stillborn child.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I would be buried like a stillborn baby. I would not exist. I would be like infants who never saw the light.

International Standard Version
"Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like babies who never saw the light?

NET Bible
Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

New King James Version
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, Like infants who never saw light?

King James 2000 Bible
Or as a hidden untimely birth, I had not been; as infants who never saw light.

New Heart English Bible
or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

World English Bible
or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

American King James Version
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

American Standard Version
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.

A Faithful Version
Or as a discarded untimely birth I would not exist, like infants who did not see light.

Darby Bible Translation
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

English Revised Version
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Webster's Bible Translation
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Or why was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, either as young children which neuer sawe the light?

Coverdale Bible of 1535
O that I vtterly had no beynge, or were as a thige borne out of tyme (that is put asyde) ether as yonge children, which neuer sawe the light.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
(Or I am not as a hidden abortion, "" As infants—they have not seen light.)

Young's Literal Translation
(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)

Smith's Literal Translation
Or as a hidden abortion I shall not be; as children they saw not light.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Or as a hidden untimely birth I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.

Catholic Public Domain Version
or, like a hidden miscarriage, I should not have continued, just like those who, being conceived, have not seen the light.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Or like a miscarriage buried where I had not been, and like embryos who did not see the light

Lamsa Bible
Or like a hidden untimely birth, as if I had not been; like infants that never saw the light.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; As infants that never saw light.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light.
















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