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OET (OET-LV) Or[fn] like_stillborn_child hidden not was_I like_infants [who]_not they_have_seen light.
3:16 Note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
OET (OET-RV) I might never have been—like a stillborn child.
⇔ ≈Like some infants who never see the light.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
כְנֵ֣פֶל טָ֭מוּן
like,stillborn_child hidden
The word translated hidden refers implicitly to burial. You can indicate this in your translation if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “like a child who was not born alive and so was buried immediately”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
כְּ֝עֹלְלִ֗ים לֹא־רָ֥אוּ אֽוֹר
like,infants not see light
Job is using one part of the birth process, seeing the light for the first time, to mean all of the birth process. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “like infants who are not born alive”
3:1-26 Job’s outburst did not mean that his integrity had cracked under the strain (42:7-8; Jas 5:11). Elijah and Jeremiah, both godly men, used the same hyperbolic language (1 Kgs 19:4; Jer 20:14-18).
OET (OET-LV) Or[fn] like_stillborn_child hidden not was_I like_infants [who]_not they_have_seen light.
3:16 Note: We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.
OET (OET-RV) I might never have been—like a stillborn child.
⇔ ≈Like some infants who never see the light.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.