Job 3

1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. ‡ Jer 20:14-15Psa 106:33Psa 39:2-3Job 1:22Job 2:5Job 2:9-10Job 3:3Job 35:16 +12 And Job spake, and said, ¹ ‡ Jdg 18:14 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. ‡ Jer 20:14-18Jer 15:10Job 10:18-19 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. ‡ Act 27:20Amo 5:18Deu 11:12Exo 10:22-23Jol 2:2Mat 27:45Rev 16:10 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. ^{2 3} ‡ Job 10:21-22Job 28:3Jer 2:6Psa 23:4Deu 4:11Ezk 34:12Isa 9:2Jer 13:16 +146 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. ⁴ 7 Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. ‡ Isa 13:20-22Isa 24:8Jer 7:34Rev 18:22-23 8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. ⁵ ‡ Job 41:1Job 41:102Ch 35:25Amo 5:16Jer 9:17-18Job 41:25Mat 11:17Mrk 5:38 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: ⁶ ‡ Job 41:18Jer 13:16Jer 8:15Job 30:26 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. ‡ Ecc 6:3-5Gen 20:18Jer 20:171Sa 1:5Ecc 11:10Gen 29:31Job 10:1Job 23:2 +2

11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? ‡ Isa 46:3Job 10:18-19Hos 9:14Jer 15:10Psa 139:13-16Psa 22:9-10Psa 58:8Psa 71:6 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? ‡ Gen 30:3Isa 66:12Gen 50:23Ezk 16:4-5 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, ‡ Ecc 9:10Job 14:10-12Job 21:13Ecc 6:3-5Job 10:22Job 17:13Job 19:27Job 21:23 +214 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; ‡ Job 15:28Isa 14:10-16Psa 49:14Psa 89:481Ki 11:43Ecc 8:8Ezk 26:20Ezk 27:18-32 +615 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: ‡ 1Ki 10:27Job 22:25Zep 1:18Isa 2:7Job 12:21Job 27:16-17Num 22:18Zec 9:3 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. ‡ Psa 58:8Ecc 6:31Co 15:8 17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. ⁷ ‡ Rev 14:13Job 17:16Heb 4:11Heb 4:9Isa 57:1-2Job 14:132Th 1:6-7Luk 12:4 +318 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. ‡ Job 39:7Exo 5:15-19Exo 5:6-8Isa 14:3-4Jdg 4:3 19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. ‡ Ecc 12:7Ecc 8:8Job 30:23Ecc 12:5Heb 9:27Luk 16:22-23Psa 49:14-20Psa 49:2 +1

20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; ‡ Jer 20:18Job 7:15-161Sa 1:10Pro 31:62Ki 4:27Job 3:16Job 33:30Job 6:9 +121 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; ⁸ ‡ Rev 9:6Pro 2:41Ki 19:4Jon 4:3Jon 4:8Num 11:15 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 God hath hedged in? ‡ Job 19:8Lam 3:7Isa 40:27Hos 2:6Job 12:14Job 19:12Lam 3:9Psa 31:8 +224 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. ⁹ ‡ Psa 102:9Psa 42:3-4Psa 80:5Psa 38:8Isa 59:11Job 33:20Job 6:7Job 7:19 +325 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. ¹⁰ ‡ Job 1:5Job 30:15Job 31:23 26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. ‡ Job 7:14Job 27:9Psa 143:11