Job · Brenton's English Septuagint
Job 3 Brenton's English Septuagint
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (2)
- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day,
1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
2 saying,
2 Job answered:
3 Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a man-child!
3 “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
4 Let that night be darkness, and let not the Lord regard it from above, neither let light come upon it.
4 Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
5 But let darkness and the shadow of death seize it; let blackness come upon it;
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.
6 let that day and night be cursed, let darkness carry them away; let it not come into the days of the year, neither let it be numbered with the days of the months.
6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
7 But let that night be pain, and let not mirth come upon it, nor joy.
7 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
8 But let him that curses that day curse it, [even] he that is ready to attack the great whale.
8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 Let the stars of that night be darkened; let it remain [dark], and not come into light; and let it not see the morning star arise:
9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
10 because it shut not up the gates of my mother's womb, for [so] it would have removed sorrow from my eyes.
10 because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
11 For why died I not in the belly? and [why] did I not come forth from the womb and die immediately?
11 “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
12 And why did the knees support me? and why did I suck the breasts?
12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
13 Now I should have lain down and been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest,
13 For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
14 with kings [and] councillors of the earth, who gloried in [their] swords;
14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
15 or with rulers, whose gold was abundant, who filled their houses with silver:
15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
16 or [I should have been] as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light.
16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
17 There the ungodly have burnt out the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
18 And the men of old time have together ceased to hear the exactor's voice.
18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19 The small and great are there, and the servant that feared his lord.
19 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
20 For why is light given to those who are in bitterness, and life to the souls which are in griefs?
20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
21 who desire death, and obtain it not, digging [for it] as [for] treasures;
21 who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
22 and would be very joyful if they should gain it?
22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 Death [is] rest to [such] a man, for God has hedged him in.
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
24 For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep being beset with terror.
24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
25 For the terror of which I meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me.
25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
26 I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor had I rest; yet wrath came upon me.
26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 20:14–15; Psalm 106:33; Psalm 39:2–3; Job 2:9–10; Job 3:3
- 3 Jeremiah 20:14–18; Jeremiah 15:10; Job 10:18–19
- 4 Matthew 27:45; Amos 5:18; Revelation 16:10; Deuteronomy 11:12; Joel 2:2
- 5 Job 10:21–22; Job 28:3; Jeremiah 2:6; Psalm 23:4; Psalm 107:14
- 7 Isaiah 13:20–22; Jeremiah 7:34; Revelation 18:22–23; Isaiah 24:8
- 8 Job 41:1; Job 41:10; 2 Chronicles 35:25; Jeremiah 9:17–18; Job 41:25
- 9 Job 41:18; Jeremiah 8:15; Jeremiah 13:16; Job 30:26
- 10 Ecclesiastes 6:3–5; Genesis 20:18; Jeremiah 20:17; 1 Samuel 1:5; Genesis 29:31
- 11 Isaiah 46:3; Job 10:18–19; Hosea 9:14; Jeremiah 15:10; Psalm 139:13–16
- 12 Genesis 30:3; Isaiah 66:12; Genesis 50:23; Ezekiel 16:4–5
- 13 Ecclesiastes 9:10; Job 14:10–12; Job 21:13; Job 7:21; Ecclesiastes 6:3–5
- 14 Job 15:28; Psalm 89:48; Isaiah 14:10–16; Psalm 49:14; Psalm 49:6–10
- 15 1 Kings 10:27; Job 22:25; Zephaniah 1:18; Numbers 22:18; Job 27:16–17
- 16 Psalm 58:8; Ecclesiastes 6:3; 1 Corinthians 15:8
- 17 Revelation 14:13; Job 17:16; Isaiah 57:1–2; Job 14:13; Hebrews 4:11
- 18 Job 39:7; Exodus 5:15–19; Judges 4:3; Exodus 5:6–8; Isaiah 14:3–4
- 19 Ecclesiastes 8:8; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Job 30:23; Psalm 49:2; Luke 16:22–23
- 20 Jeremiah 20:18; Job 7:15–16; 1 Samuel 1:10; Proverbs 31:6; Job 6:9
- 21 Revelation 9:6; Proverbs 2:4; Numbers 11:15; Jonah 4:8; 1 Kings 19:4
- 23 Job 19:8; Lamentations 3:7; Isaiah 40:27; Job 12:14; Lamentations 3:9
- 24 Psalm 102:9; Psalm 42:3–4; Psalm 80:5; Psalm 38:8; Job 33:20
- 25 Job 1:5; Job 30:15; Job 31:23
- 26 Job 7:14; Job 27:9; Psalm 143:11
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
And this he declared, when he said, "For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me; and that which I was afraid of is come unto me." And again, "But I wept for every helpless man, and groaned when I saw a man in distress." So because of this, nothing of what happened confounded him, none of those …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)