Job 3:16

“Or as an hidden untimely birth, etc.] 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, (<461508>1 Corinthians 15:8); the word has the signification of “falling” f117, 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…”

“untimely birth-- (Psa 58:8); preferable to the life of the restless miser (Ecc 6:3-5).”

“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. Septuagint ἔκτρωμα ektrōma, the same word which is used by Paul in 1 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. As infants…”

“Hidden - Undiscerned and unregarded. Born before the due time. Been - In the land of the living. Job 3:17”

“an hidden: Psa 58:8; Co1 15:8 Job 3:17”