Job 3
Job Curses the Day of His Birth
1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. Parallel theme: Psalms 106:33
2 And Job spake, and said,
3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. Parallel theme: Jeremiah 15:10
4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: Light: Job 41:18
10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? Parallel theme: Isaiah 46:3
12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? Parallel theme: Genesis 30:3, 50:23, Isaiah 66:12
13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; Parallel theme: Job 15:28
15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. Parallel theme: Psalms 58:8, Ecclesiastes 6:3, 1 Corinthians 15:8
17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. Parallel theme: Job 14:13, 17:16, Hebrews 4:9, 4:11, Revelation 14:13
18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. Parallel theme: Job 39:7
19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. Parallel theme: Job 30:23
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Parallel theme: 1 Samuel 1:10, Proverbs 31:6, Jeremiah 20:18
21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Parallel theme: Proverbs 2:4, Revelation 9:6
22 Which 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 GodGod: אֱלֹהִים (Elohim). The Hebrew Elohim (אֱלֹהִים) is a plural form denoting majesty and fullness of deity. Though grammatically plural, it takes singular verbs when referring to the one true God, suggesting the Trinity's plurality within unity. hath hedged in? References God: Isaiah 40:27. Parallel theme: Job 19:8, Lamentations 3:7
24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. Parallel theme: Psalms 38:8, 80:5, 102:9
25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. Parallel theme: Job 1:5, 30:15, 31:23
26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. Parallel theme: Job 7:14, 27:9, Psalms 143:11