Hidden; undiscerned and unregarded. Untimely birth; born before the due time, and therefore extinct. I had not been, to wit, in the land of the living, of which he here speaketh. As infants which never saw light; being stifled and dead before they were born.
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Job 3:16
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.