“Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.”
Job laments that he was not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, comparing his fate unfavorably to the infants who die unborn or shortly after birth and escape the burden of conscious existence. The image of the hidden grave represents a merciful obscurity granted to those spared the full weight of life's suffering. His comparison reveals the tragic paradox that non-existence appears preferable to existence burdened with pain.
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