Job 3:16

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

Cross-reference

Job 33:28 Contrast

Job 33:28 promises deliverance to see light, the opposite of Job's desire for a stillborn who never sees light.

Psalm 58:8 Parallel

Psalm 58:8 uses the same 'untimely birth' metaphor for the wicked vanishing without seeing the sun, echoing Job's wish.

Numbers 12:12 describes a stillborn as half-consumed from the womb, mirroring Job's wished-for state of never seeing light.

Ecclesiastes 6:3 declares a stillborn better than a long life without goodness, agreeing with Job's wish from a wisdom perspective.

Jeremiah 20:17 echoes Job's curse, wishing his mother's womb had been his grave—a parallel lament over birth.