Job 3:1
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
- KJV
- After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
- WEB
- After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
- ASV
- After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
- DARBY
- After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
- BLB
- After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
- ÅB
- Deretter åpnet Job sin munn og forbannet den dag han ble født.
- OTB
- Etter disse hendelsene talte Job og klaget over dagen han ble født.
- B1930
- Derefter oplot Job sin munn og forbannet den dag han blev født.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Jeremiah 20:14–15
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Read in contextPsalms 106:33
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
Read in contextPsalms 39:2–3
I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good; and my sorrow was stirred.
Read in contextJob 2:9–10
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
Read in contextJob 3:3
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Read in contextJob 35:16
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Read in contextJob 1:22
In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
Read in contextJob 2:5
But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Read in context