“"Or like a stillborn child that never sees the light," he says. Notice how, in order that he may not appear to be arrogant, he even compares himself with a stillborn child, so absolutely wretched and pitiful is he.”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — COMMENTARY ON JOB 3:20-23
Original
16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Modern
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In context
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
— Job 3:16 —
17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.