Job 3:16 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.)

English ASV

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

English Amplified

Or [why] was I not a miscarriage, hidden and put away, as infants who never saw light?

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

Or [why] was I not a miscarriage, hidden and put away, as infants who never saw light?

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

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

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

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

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

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

English EASY 2024

My parents should have buried me, like a child that is born dead. I would never have seen the light of day.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

Why wasn't I a child who died at birth and was put in the ground? I wish I had been buried like a baby who never saw the light of day.

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

English GNT (Good News Translation)

or sleeping like a stillborn child.

English God's Word - GW 1995

I would be buried like a stillborn baby. I would not exist. I would be like infants who never saw the light.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

Or [why] was I not hidden like a miscarried child, like infants who never see daylight?

English KJV 1611

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

English LSB

Or why was I not like a miscarriage hidden away, As infants that never saw light?

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw light?

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

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

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

Or why was I not buried away like an untimely birth, like babes that have never seen the light?

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

Why wasn't I buried like a baby who was born dead? Why wasn't I buried like a child who never saw the light of day?

English NIV

Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?

English NKJ 1982

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

English NLT

Why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like a baby who never lives to see the light?

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like an infant that never sees the light?

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

Or why was I not as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never see the light?

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

Oh, to have been stillborn!—to have never breathed or seen the light.

English Tyndale 1537

O that I utterly had no being, or were as a thing born out of time (that is put aside) ether as young children, which never saw the light.

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