Job 3:16
Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Or as an hidden vntimely birth, I had not bene; as infants which neuer saw light.
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- Psalms 58:8Rank 1 from verse 16
- Ecclesiastes 6:3Rank 2 from verse 16
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.
3¶ If a man beget an hundred children, and liue many yeeres, so that the dayes of his yeeres bee many: and his soule be not filled with good, and also that he haue no buriall, I say, that an vntimely birth is better then he.
- 1 Corinthians 15:8Rank 3 from verse 16
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Job 3:16
Concealed, secret, or kept from sight or knowledge.
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Happening before the usual time.
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Sense 1: The act or process of coming into life or bringing forth. Sense 2: That which is born; offspring. Sense 3: Origin, lineage, or one's place or condition as determined by birth.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Very young children; babes.
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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.
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Sense 1: Not ever; at no time or in no case. Sense 2: In never so constructions, however or no matter how much.
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Sense 1: Brightness or illumination. Sense 2: A source or opening that gives light. Sense 3: Figuratively, truth, knowledge, revelation, life, or favour contrasted with darkness. Sense 4: To illuminate or kindle. Sense 5: To alight or come upon. Sense 6: Slight, easy, swift, or not heavy.
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15Or with Princes that had golde, who filled their houses with siluer:
16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
16Or as an hidden vntimely birth, I had not bene; as infants which neuer saw light.
Selected passage17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
17There the wicked cease from troubling: and there the †wearie be at rest.