Job’s Lament

Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed [a]the day of his birth.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 3:1 Lit his day

Job Speaks

After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.(A)

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

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(A)May the day on which I was to be born perish,
As well as the night which said, ‘A [a]boy is conceived.’

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Footnotes

  1. Job 3:3 Lit man-child

“May the day of my birth perish,
    and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’(A)

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

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14 Cursed be the (A)day when I was born;
May the day when my mother gave birth to me not be blessed!

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14 Cursed be the day I was born!(A)
    May the day my mother bore me not be blessed!

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

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