Job 3:16

16 O ¿por qué no fui escondido como abortivo, como los pequeñitos que nunca vieron luz

Job 3:16 Meaning and Commentary

Job 3:16

Or as an hidden untimely birth
Or "hid, as one born out of time", as Mr. Broughton reads it; the Septuagint use the same word as the apostle does, when he says the like of himself, ( 1 Corinthians 15:8 ) ; the word has the signification of "falling" ^F19, and designs an abortive, which is like to fruit that falls from the tree before it is ripe; and this may be said to be "hidden", either in the belly, as the Targum, or however from the sight of man, it being not come to any proper shape, and much less perfection; now Job suggests, that if he had not lain with kings, counsellors, and princes, yet at least he should have been as an abortion, and that would have been as well to him: then

I had not been;
or should have been nothing, not reckoned anything; should not have been numbered among beings, but accounted as a nonentity, and should have had no subsistence or standing in the world at all:

as infants [which] never saw light;
and if not like an untimely birth, which is not come to any perfection, yet should have been like infants, which, though their mothers have gone their full time with them, and they have all their limbs in perfection and proportion, yet are dead, or stillborn, their eyes have never been opened to see any light; meaning not the light of the law, as the Targum, but the light of the sun, or the light of the world, see ( Ecclesiastes 6:3-5 ) ; infants used to be buried in the wells or caves of the mummies ^F20.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 (lpgk) "sicut abortivus qui ex utero excidit, aut in terram cadit", Michaelis.
F20 Vansleb, ut supra, (Relation of a Voyage to Egypt,) p. 90.

Job 3:16 In-Context

14 con los reyes y con los consejeros de la tierra, que edifican para sí los desiertos

15 o con los príncipes que poseen el oro, que llenan sus casas de plata

16 O ¿por qué no fui escondido como abortivo, como los pequeñitos que nunca vieron luz

17 Allí los impíos dejaron de molestar, y allí descansaron los de cansadas fuerzas

18 Allí también reposaron los cautivos; no oyeron la voz del exactor