Job 3:16
Job · Old Testament · Chapter 3
“Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.”Job 3:16
What Does Job 3:16 Mean?
Job 3:16 is found in the book of Job, chapter 3, verse 16 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 7 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (7)
These passages are connected to Job 3:16 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Ecclesiastes 6:3“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.”Psalms 58:8“As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.”Job 33:28“He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.”Jeremiah 20:17“Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.”1 Corinthians 15:8“And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.”Numbers 12:12“Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.”Job 3:20“Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;”
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