Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. This is added as another way in which Job might have escaped his misery. Though conceived and brought to the birth, he might have been still-born, and so have known no suffering.
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Job 3:16
Job 3:16
The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain
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