Catholic Public Domain Version
"or, like a hidden miscarriage, I should not have continued, just like those who, being conceived, have not seen the light. "
— Job 3:16, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.”
“Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light. ”
“or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.”
“Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?”
“Or as a hidden untimely birth, I should not be; or as they that, being conceived, have not seen the light.”
“Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.”
“Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.”
For by now, I should have been sleeping silently, and taking rest in my sleep
with the kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes,
either with princes, who possess gold and fill their houses with silver,
or, like a hidden miscarriage, I should not have continued, just like those who, being conceived, have not seen the light.
There the impious cease from rebellion, and there the wearied in strength take rest.
And at such times, having been bound together without difficulty, they have not heard the voice of the bailiff.
The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.