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

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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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  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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If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

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