Job 3

1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.Cross-references: Job 1:11 · Job 1:22 · Job 2:5 · Job 2:9 · Job 3:3 · Job 35:16 · +3 more

2Job answered:Cross-references: Judg 18:14

3“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’Cross-references: Job 10:18 · Jer 15:10 · Jer 20:14

4Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.Cross-references: Ex 10:22 · Deut 11:12 · Joel 2:2 · Amos 5:18 · Matt 27:45 · Acts 27:20 · +1 more

5Let 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.Cross-references: Deut 4:11 · Job 10:21 · Job 16:16 · Job 24:17 · Job 28:3 · Job 38:17 · +16 more

6As 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.

7Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.Cross-references: Isa 13:20 · Isa 24:8 · Jer 7:34 · Rev 18:22

8Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.Cross-references: 2Chr 35:25 · Job 41:1 · Job 41:10 · Job 41:25 · Jer 9:17 · Amos 5:16 · +2 more

9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,Cross-references: Job 30:26 · Job 41:18 · Jer 8:15 · Jer 13:16

10because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.Cross-references: Gen 20:18 · Gen 29:31 · 1Sam 1:5 · Job 6:2 · Job 10:1 · Job 10:18 · +4 more

11“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?Cross-references: Job 10:18 · Ps 22:9 · Ps 58:8 · Ps 71:6 · Ps 139:13 · Isa 46:3 · +2 more

12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?Cross-references: Gen 30:3 · Gen 50:23 · Isa 66:12 · Ezek 16:4

13For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,Cross-references: Job 7:8 · Job 7:21 · Job 10:22 · Job 14:10 · Job 17:13 · Job 19:27 · +4 more

14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;Cross-references: 1Ki 2:10 · 1Ki 11:43 · Job 12:17 · Job 15:28 · Job 30:23 · Ps 49:6 · +8 more

15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;Cross-references: Num 22:18 · 1Ki 10:27 · Job 12:21 · Job 22:25 · Job 27:16 · Isa 2:7 · +2 more

16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.Cross-references: Ps 58:8 · Eccl 6:3 · 1Cor 15:8

17There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.Cross-references: Job 14:13 · Job 17:16 · Ps 55:5 · Isa 57:1 · Matt 10:28 · Luke 12:4 · +5 more

18There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.Cross-references: Ex 5:6 · Ex 5:15 · Judg 4:3 · Job 39:7 · Isa 14:3

19The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.Cross-references: Job 30:23 · Ps 49:2 · Ps 49:6 · Ps 49:14 · Eccl 8:8 · Eccl 12:5 · +3 more

20“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,Cross-references: 1Sam 1:10 · 2Ki 4:27 · Job 3:16 · Job 6:9 · Job 7:15 · Job 33:28 · +3 more

21who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,Cross-references: Num 11:15 · 1Ki 19:4 · Prov 2:4 · Jonah 4:3 · Jonah 4:8 · Rev 9:6

22who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?Cross-references: Job 12:14 · Job 19:6 · Job 19:8 · Job 19:12 · Ps 31:8 · Ps 88:8 · +4 more

24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.Cross-references: Job 6:7 · Job 7:19 · Job 33:20 · Ps 22:1 · Ps 32:3 · Ps 38:8 · +5 more

25For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.Cross-references: Job 1:5 · Job 30:15 · Job 31:23

26I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”Cross-references: Job 7:14 · Job 27:9 · Ps 143:11