Job 3 (NET)

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Job 3:1¹After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 20:14-15 Ps 106:33 Ps 39:2-3 Job 1:22 Job 2:5 Job 2:9-10 Job 3:3 Job 35:16

Job 3:2²Job spoke up and said:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Job 3:3³“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said, ‘A man has been conceived!’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 15:10 Jer 20:14-18 Job 10:18-19

Job 3:4⁴That day —let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 27:20 Amos 5:18 Deut 11:12 Exod 10:22-23 Joel 2:2 Matt 27:45 Rev 16:10

Job 3:5⁵Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 10:21-22 Job 28:3 Jer 2:6 Ps 23:4 Deut 4:11 Ezek 34:12 Isa 9:2 Jer 13:16 Jer 4:28 Ps 107:10

Job 3:6⁶That night—let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Job 3:7⁷Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 13:20-22 Isa 24:8 Jer 7:34 Rev 18:22-23

Job 3:8⁸Let those who curse the day curse it — those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 41:1 Job 41:10 2 Chr 35:25 Amos 5:16 Jer 9:17-18 Job 41:25 Mark 5:38 Matt 11:17

Job 3:9⁹Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 41:18 Jer 13:16 Jer 8:15 Job 30:26

Job 3:10¹⁰because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eccl 6:3-5 Gen 20:18 Jer 20:17 1 Sam 1:5 Eccl 11:10 Gen 29:31 Job 10:1 Job 23:2 Job 6:2-3 Job 10:18-19

Job 3:11¹¹“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 46:3 Job 10:18-19 Hos 9:14 Jer 15:10 Ps 139:13-16 Ps 22:9-10 Ps 58:8 Ps 71:6

Job 3:12¹²Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 30:3 Isa 66:12 Gen 50:23 Ezek 16:4-5

Job 3:13¹³For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peaceCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eccl 9:10 Job 14:10-12 Job 21:13 Eccl 6:3-5 Job 10:22 Job 17:13 Job 19:27 Job 21:23 Job 7:21 Job 7:8-10

Job 3:14¹⁴with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 15:28 Isa 14:10-16 Ps 49:14 Ps 89:48 1 Kgs 11:43 Eccl 8:8 Ezek 26:20 Ezek 27:18-32 Isa 5:8 Isa 58:12

Job 3:15¹⁵or with princes who possessed gold, who filled their palaces with silver.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 10:27 Job 22:25 Zeph 1:18 Isa 2:7 Job 12:21 Job 27:16-17 Num 22:18 Zech 9:3

Job 3:16¹⁶Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 58:8 Eccl 6:3 1 Cor 15:8

Job 3:17¹⁷There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 14:13 Job 17:16 Heb 4:11 Heb 4:9 Isa 57:1-2 Job 14:13 2 Thess 1:6-7 Luke 12:4 Matt 10:28 Ps 55:5-8

Job 3:18¹⁸There the prisoners relax together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 39:7 Exod 5:15-19 Exod 5:6-8 Isa 14:3-4 Judg 4:3

Job 3:19¹⁹Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eccl 12:7 Eccl 8:8 Job 30:23 Eccl 12:5 Heb 9:27 Luke 16:22-23 Ps 49:14-20 Ps 49:2 Ps 49:6-10

Job 3:20²⁰“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 20:18 Job 7:15-16 1 Sam 1:10 Prov 31:6 2 Kgs 4:27 Job 3:16 Job 33:30 Job 6:9 Job 33:28

Job 3:21²¹to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 9:6 Prov 2:4 1 Kgs 19:4 Jonah 4:3 Jonah 4:8 Num 11:15

Job 3:22²²who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Job 3:23²³Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 19:8 Lam 3:7 Isa 40:27 Hos 2:6 Job 12:14 Job 19:12 Lam 3:9 Ps 31:8 Ps 88:8 Job 19:6

Job 3:24²⁴For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 102:9 Ps 42:3-4 Ps 80:5 Ps 38:8 Isa 59:11 Job 33:20 Job 6:7 Job 7:19 Lam 3:8 Ps 22:1-2

Job 3:25²⁵For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 1:5 Job 30:15 Job 31:23

Job 3:26²⁶I have no ease, I have no quietness; I cannot rest; turmoil has come upon me.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 7:14 Job 27:9 Ps 143:11

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