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- Job continues his thoughts about dying before he was born.
- Or I would have been lying...that never see the light - This describes something that might have happened but did not happen. (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_hypo)
- I would have been lying with princes - "I would be resting with princes."(UDB) In this phrase, the words "lying" and "resting" represent a polite way of saying "no longer alive." (See: en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_euphemism)
- who once had gold, who had filled their houses with silver - Job uses parallelism to emphasize what he is saying. (See: en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_parallelism)
- Or perhaps I would have been stillborn, like infants that never see the light - Job uses parallelism to emphasize what he is saying. (See: en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_parallelism)
- I would have been stillborn - AT: "I would have died in my mother's womb."
- like infants that never see the light - AT: "like babies who had never been born"
- infants - "babies" or "very small children"