Job Chapter 3
Job is the 18th book in the Holy Bible.
This page contains Job 3:1 to Job 3:9.
Browse to all the verses of Job by clicking the page number below the chapter list.
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Job 3:1
Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
Job 3:2
And Job said,
Job 3:3
"Let the day perish on which I was to be born, And the night which said, 'A boy is conceived.'
Job 3:4
"May that day be darkness; Let not God above care for it, Nor light shine on it.
Job 3:5
"Let darkness and black gloom claim it; Let a cloud settle on it; Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Job 3:6
"As for that night, let darkness seize it; Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.
Job 3:7
"Behold, let that night be barren; Let no joyful shout enter it.
Job 3:8
"Let those curse it who curse the day, Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
Job 3:9
"Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; Let it wait for light but have none, And let it not see the breaking dawn;
Job 3:10
Because it did not shut the opening of my mother's womb, Or hide trouble from my eyes.
Job 3:11
"Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire?
Job 3:12
"Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
Job 3:13
"For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
Job 3:14
With kings and with counselors of the earth, Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;
Job 3:15
Or with princes who had gold, Who were filling their houses with silver.
Job 3:16
"Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be, As infants that never saw light.
Job 3:17
"There the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary are at rest.
Job 3:18
"The prisoners are at ease together; They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
Job 3:19
"The small and the great are there, And the slave is free from his master.
Job 3:20
"Why is light given to him who suffers, And life to the bitter of soul,
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