Job 3:16

"or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;"

Key Reflection

This verse contrasts the speaker's desire for non-existence with the wealth and opulence of others. It suggests a bitter comparison between one’s own suffering and the lavish lives of those who possess great riches, highlighting the stark contrast between material abundance and personal despair.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Or as an hidden untimely birth -As an abortion which is hid, or concealed; that is, which is soon removed from the sight. So the Psalmist,Psalms 58:8: As a snail which melteth, let thom dissolve; As the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. Septuagintἔκτρωμαektrōma, the same word which is used by Paul in1 Corinthians 15:8, with reference to himself; see the notes at that place. I had not been -I should have perished; I should not have been a man, as I now am, subject to calamity. The meaning is, that he would have been taken away and concealed, as such an untimely birth is, and that he would never have been numbered among the living and the suffering.

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