"Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night {in which} it was said, There is a man child conceived." — Job 3:3

Job 3:3 · KJV

“Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night {in which} it was said, There is a man child conceived.”

— Job 3:3

Verse 2

And Job spake, and said, {spake: Heb. answered}

Verse 4

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

Job 3 — Context

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

And Job spake, and said, {spake: Heb. answered}

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night {in which} it was said, There is a man child conceived.

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. {stain: or, challenge} {let the...: or, let them terrify it, as those who have a bitter day}

Cross References

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; {yet} every one of them doth curse me.

Jeremiah 20:14-18

Cursed {be} the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.

Job 10:18-19

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

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