Job 3:16
Or as a hidden untimely birth I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- aut sicut abortivum absconditum non subsisterem, vel qui concepti non viderunt lucem.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- ἢ ὥσπερ ἔκτρωμα ἐκπορευόμενον ἐκ μήτρας μητρός, ἢ ὥσπερ νήπιοι οἳ οὐκ εἶδον φῶς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- א֤וֹ כְנֵ֣פֶל טָ֭מוּן לֹ֣א אֶהְיֶ֑ה כְּ֝עֹלְלִ֗ים לֹא רָ֥אוּ אֽוֹר
Haydock's commentary
Light; dying in the womb. He expresses a desire that he had been thus prevented from feeling his present miseries and danger of sin. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.