Job 3

¹After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 20:14-15Ps 106:33Ps 39:2-3Job 1:22Job 2:5Job 2:9-10Job 3:3Job 35:16

²And Job spake, and said, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

³Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 15:10Jer 20:14-18Job 10:18-19

⁴Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 27:20Amos 5:18Deut 11:12Exod 10:22-23Joel 2:2Matt 27:45Rev 16:10

⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 10:21-22Job 28:3Jer 2:6Ps 23:4Deut 4:11Ezek 34:12Isa 9:2Jer 13:16Jer 4:28Ps 107:10

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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

⁷Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 13:20-22Isa 24:8Jer 7:34Rev 18:22-23

⁸Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 41:1Job 41:102 Chr 35:25Amos 5:16Jer 9:17-18Job 41:25Mark 5:38Matt 11:17

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: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 41:18Jer 13:16Jer 8:15Job 30:26

¹⁰Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 6:3-5Gen 20:18Jer 20:171 Sam 1:5Eccl 11:10Gen 29:31Job 10:1Job 23:2Job 6:2-3Job 10:18-19

¹¹Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 46:3Job 10:18-19Hos 9:14Jer 15:10Ps 139:13-16Ps 22:9-10Ps 58:8Ps 71:6

¹²Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 30:3Isa 66:12Gen 50:23Ezek 16:4-5

¹³For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 9:10Job 14:10-12Job 21:13Eccl 6:3-5Job 10:22Job 17:13Job 19:27Job 21:23Job 7:21Job 7:8-10

¹⁴With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 15:28Isa 14:10-16Ps 49:14Ps 89:481 Kgs 11:43Eccl 8:8Ezek 26:20Ezek 27:18-32Isa 5:8Isa 58:12

¹⁵Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 10:27Job 22:25Zeph 1:18Isa 2:7Job 12:21Job 27:16-17Num 22:18Zech 9:3

¹⁶Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 58:8Eccl 6:31 Cor 15:8

¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Rev 14:13Job 17:16Heb 4:11Heb 4:9Isa 57:1-2Job 14:132 Thess 1:6-7Luke 12:4Matt 10:28Ps 55:5-8

¹⁸There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 39:7Exod 5:15-19Exod 5:6-8Isa 14:3-4Judg 4:3

¹⁹The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eccl 12:7Eccl 8:8Job 30:23Eccl 12:5Heb 9:27Luke 16:22-23Ps 49:14-20Ps 49:2Ps 49:6-10

²⁰Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 20:18Job 7:15-161 Sam 1:10Prov 31:62 Kgs 4:27Job 3:16Job 33:30Job 6:9Job 33:28

²¹Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Rev 9:6Prov 2:41 Kgs 19:4Jonah 4:3Jonah 4:8Num 11:15

²²Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²³Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 19:8Lam 3:7Isa 40:27Hos 2:6Job 12:14Job 19:12Lam 3:9Ps 31:8Ps 88:8Job 19:6

²⁴For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 102:9Ps 42:3-4Ps 80:5Ps 38:8Isa 59:11Job 33:20Job 6:7Job 7:19Lam 3:8Ps 22:1-2

²⁵For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 1:5Job 30:15Job 31:23

²⁶I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 7:14Job 27:9Ps 143:11