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Job 3:16–17

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16“Or like a miscarriage which is 1discarded, I would not be,

As infants that never saw light.

17“There the wicked cease from raging,

And there the 1weary are at arest.

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Footnotes

  1. 1Lit hidden
  2. 1Lit weary of strength

Cross references

  1. aJob 17:16

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child,

as infants who never see the light?

There the wicked cease from troubling,

and there the weary are at rest.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child,

like an infant who never saw the light of day?

There the wicked cease from turmoil,

and there the weary are at rest.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Or why was I not hidden like a miscarried child,

like infants who never see daylight?

There the wicked cease to make trouble,

and there the weary find rest.

NLTNew Living Translation

Why wasn’t I buried like a stillborn child,

like a baby who never lives to see the light?

For in death the wicked cause no trouble,

and the weary are at rest.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Or why was I not hidden like a miscarriage,

like infants who did not see the light?

There the wicked cease from troubling,

and there the weary are at rest;

KJV 1900King James Version

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been;

As infants which never saw light.

There the wicked cease from troubling;

And there the weary be at rest.