Job 3:1 - Forerunner Commentary

Job 3:1

1 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

2 And Job¹ spoke, and said:

3 “May^a the day perish on which I was born,
And the night in which it was said,
‘A male child is conceived.’

4 May that day be darkness;
May God above not seek it,
Nor the light shine upon it.

5 May darkness and ^athe shadow of death claim it;
May a cloud settle on it;
May the blackness of the day terrify it.

6 As for that night, may darkness seize it;
May it not¹ rejoice among the days of the year,
May it not come into the number of the months.

7 Oh, may that night be barren!
May no joyful shout come into it!

8 May those curse it who curse the day,
Those ^awho are ready to arouse Leviathan.

9 May the stars of its morning be dark;
May it look for light, but have none,
And not see the¹ dawning of the day;

10 Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

11 “Why^a did I not die at birth?
Why did I not¹ perish when I came from the womb?

12 ^aWhy did the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?

13 For now I would have lain still and been quiet,
I would have been asleep;
Then I would have been at rest

14 With kings and counselors of the earth,
Who ^abuilt ruins for themselves,

15 Or with princes who had gold,
Who filled their houses with silver;

16 Or why was I not hidden ^alike a stillborn child,
Like infants who never saw light?

17 There the wicked cease from troubling,
And there the¹ weary are at ^arest.

18 There the prisoners¹ rest together;
^aThey do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

19 The small and great are there,
And the servant is free from his master.

20 “Why^a is light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the ^bbitter of soul,

21 Who ^along for death, but it does not come,
And search for it more than ^bhidden treasures;

22 Who rejoice exceedingly,
And are glad when they can find the ^agrave?

23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
^aAnd whom God has hedged in?

24 For my sighing comes before¹ I eat,
And my groanings pour out like water.

25 For the thing I greatly ^afeared has come upon me,
And what I dreaded has happened to me.

26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;
I have no rest, for trouble comes.”

Verse Comparison: Job 3:1

American Standard Version
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

Amplified® Bible
AFTER THIS, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day (birthday).

Contemporary English Version
Finally, Job cursed the day of his birth

Darby English Version
After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

Good News Bible
Finally Job broke the silence and cursed the day on which he had been born.

King James Version
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

New American Standard Bible
Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his {birth.}

New International Version
After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

New King James Version
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

Revised Standard Version
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

Young's Literal Translation
After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day.

New English Translation
After this Job opened his mouth¹ and cursed² the day he was born.³