16 Or like a miscarriage which is [a]hidden, I would not exist,
As infants that never saw light.

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  1. Job 3:16 I.e., buried

16 Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child,(A)
    like an infant who never saw the light of day?(B)

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If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many [a]they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper (A)burial, then I say, “Better (B)the miscarriage than he,

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 6:3 Lit the days of his years

A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn(A) child is better off than he.(B)

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