Job 3 Unlocked Literal Bible
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1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.
1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
2 He said,
2 Job answered:
3 “May the day on which I was born perish, the night that said, 'A boy has been conceived.'
3 “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
4 May that day be dark; may not God from above call it to mind, neither may the sun shine on it.
4 Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
5 May darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. May a cloud live over it; may everything that makes the day black truly terrify 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 As for that night, may thick darkness seize it. May it not rejoice among the days of the year; may it not come into the number 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 See, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.
7 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
8 May they curse that day, those who know how to wake up Leviathan.
8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 May the stars of that day's dawn be dark. May that day look for light, but find none; neither may it see the eyelids of the dawn,
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 did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, and because it did not hide trouble 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 Why did I not die when I came out from the womb? Why did I not give up my spirit when my mother bore me?
11 “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
12 Why did her knees welcome me? Why did her breasts receive me so that I should suck?
12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
13 For now I would have been lying down quietly. I would 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 counselors of the earth, who built up tombs for themselves that are now in ruins.
14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
15 Or I would have been lying with princes who once had gold, who had filled their houses with silver.
15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
16 Or perhaps I would have been stillborn, like infants that never see the light.
16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
17 There the wicked cease from trouble; there the weary are at rest.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
18 There the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the voice of the slave driver.
18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19 Both small and great people are there; the servant is free from his master there.
19 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
20 Why is light given to him who is in misery? Why is life given to the one who is bitter in soul,
20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
21 to one who longs for death without it coming; to one who digs for death more than for hidden treasure?
21 who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
22 Why is light given to one who rejoices very much and is glad when he finds the grave?
22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, a man whom God has hedged in?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
24 For my sighing happens instead of eating; my groaning is poured out like water.
24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
25 For the thing that I feared has come on me; what I was afraid of has come to me.
25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
26 I am not at ease, I am not quiet, and I have no rest; trouble comes instead.”
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
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“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).
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