Job 3
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1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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2And Job spake, and said,
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3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
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4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
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5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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6As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
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7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
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8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
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9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
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10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
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11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
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12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
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13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
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15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
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16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
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17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
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18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
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19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
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20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
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21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
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22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
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23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
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25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
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26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
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Chapter 3
Cross References
Job 3:1
Jeremiah 20:14¶ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare m...Psalms 106:33Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.Psalms 39:2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stir...Job 35:16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledg...Job 3:3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There...
Job 3:2
Job 3:3
Job 3:4
Revelation 16:10And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his king...Matthew 27:45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour...Acts 27:20And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay o...Amos 5:18Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day...Exodus 10:22And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness...
Job 3:5
Job 10:21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shad...Psalms 23:4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evi...Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet...Job 28:3He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of d...Isaiah 9:2The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in t...
Job 3:7
Isaiah 24:8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of...Jeremiah 7:34Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jer...Revelation 18:22And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be...Isaiah 13:20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to gen...
Job 3:8
Job 41:1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou...Job 41:10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?Job 41:25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they p...Matthew 11:17And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto...Mark 5:38And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult,...
Job 3:9
Job 41:18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the mor...Job 30:26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, the...Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet...Jeremiah 8:15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trou...
Job 3:10
Ecclesiastes 6:3¶ If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of h...1 Samuel 1:5But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had...Genesis 29:31¶ And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was...Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak...Ecclesiastes 11:10Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for ch...
Job 3:11
Isaiah 46:3¶ Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel,...Job 10:18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given u...Hosea 9:14Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry bre...Psalms 58:8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely bir...Psalms 71:6By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my...
Job 3:12
Genesis 30:3And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my...Isaiah 66:12For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and th...Genesis 50:23And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of...Ezekiel 16:4And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neithe...
Job 3:13
Job 17:13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.Job 19:27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though...Job 7:21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for...Job 21:23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.Job 14:10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Cross References
Job 3:1
Jeremiah 20:14¶ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare m...Psalms 106:33Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.Psalms 39:2I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stir...Job 35:16Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledg...Job 3:3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There...
Job 3:2
Job 3:3
Job 3:4
Revelation 16:10And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his king...Matthew 27:45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour...Acts 27:20And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay o...Amos 5:18Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day...Exodus 10:22And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness...
Job 3:5
Job 10:21Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shad...Psalms 23:4Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evi...Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet...Job 28:3He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of d...Isaiah 9:2The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in t...
Job 3:7
Isaiah 24:8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of...Jeremiah 7:34Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jer...Revelation 18:22And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be...Isaiah 13:20It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to gen...
Job 3:8
Job 41:1Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou...Job 41:10None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?Job 41:25When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they p...Matthew 11:17And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto...Mark 5:38And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult,...
Job 3:9
Job 41:18By his neesings a light doth shine, and his eyes are like the eyelids of the mor...Job 30:26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, the...Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet...Jeremiah 8:15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trou...
Job 3:10
Ecclesiastes 6:3¶ If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of h...1 Samuel 1:5But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the LORD had...Genesis 29:31¶ And when the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was...Job 10:1My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak...Ecclesiastes 11:10Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for ch...
Job 3:11
Isaiah 46:3¶ Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel,...Job 10:18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given u...Hosea 9:14Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a miscarrying womb and dry bre...Psalms 58:8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely bir...Psalms 71:6By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my...
Job 3:12
Genesis 30:3And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my...Isaiah 66:12For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and th...Genesis 50:23And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of...Ezekiel 16:4And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neithe...
Job 3:13
Job 17:13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.Job 19:27Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though...Job 7:21And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for...Job 21:23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.Job 14:10But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?