JobJudaism / Hebrew BibleAccepted ScriptureBiblical Hebrew / AramaicShareJob 3Webster - EnglishMoreVersion - 9 availableWorld English BibleKing James VersionAmerican Standard VersionDarby BibleYoung's Literal TranslationWebster BibleGeneva BibleDouay-Rheims ChallonerReina-Valera 1909WEBKJVASVDarbyYLTWebsterGenevaDouayRV1909LanguageEnglishEspañol‹Job 1Job 2Job 3Job 4Job 5Job 6Job 7Job 8Job 9Job 10Job 11Job 12Job 13Job 14Job 15Job 16Job 17Job 18Job 19Job 20Job 21Job 22Job 23Job 24Job 25Job 26Job 27Job 28Job 29Job 30Job 31Job 32Job 33Job 34Job 35Job 36Job 37Job 38Job 39Job 40Job 41Job 42›Job 3ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day. 2And Job spoke, and said, 3Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a mail child conceived. 4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. 7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. 8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. 9Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: 10Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes. 11Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] expire at the time of my birth? 12Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed? 13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, 14With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves; 15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: 16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light. 17There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary are at rest. 18[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. 19The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master. 20Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter [in] soul; 21Who long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22Who rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave? 23[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? 24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. 25For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me. 26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. ‹Previous chapterJob 2Next chapterJob 4›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.VersionsJob 3 across 9 versionsShow all 9WEB - World English BibleKJV - King James VersionASV - American Standard VersionDarby - Darby BibleYLT - Young's Literal TranslationWebster - Webster BibleGeneva - Geneva BibleDouay - Douay-Rheims ChallonerRV1909 - Reina-Valera 1909Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public Domain