Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
Job, perhaps reflecting upon himself for his folly in wishing he had never been born, follows it, and thinks to mend it, with another, little better, that he had died as soon as he was born, which he enlarges upon in these verses.
Commenting on Job 3:11-19
Or as an hidden untimely birth,.... 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, Co1 15:8; the word has the signification of "falling" (s), and designs an abortive, which is like to fruit that falls from the tree before it is ripe; and...
untimely birth-- (Psa 58:8); preferable to the life of the restless miser (Ecc 6:3-5).