King James Bible
"Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light."
Job wishes he had been a miscarriage—a fetus that dies in the womb and is buried secretly without ceremony. This represents his desire for complete non-existence, intensifying his previous wish to have died at birth by preferring never to have emerged from the womb at all. The parallel image emphasizes babies who die before experiencing life outside the womb, never opening their eyes to daylight. In Job's anguished state, such infants seem fortunate because they escape the suffering that consciousness brings.