God’s Word Translation
Job 3:3
3“Scratch out the day I was born and the night that said, ‘A boy has been conceived!’
Job 3:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
- New International Version (NIV)“May the day of my birth perish, and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man is conceived.'
- New King James Version (NKJV)“May the day perish on which I was born, And the night in which it was said, ‘A male child is conceived.’
Context of Job 3:3
1After all this, Job ⌞finally⌟ opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born. 2Job said, “Scratch out the day I was born and the night that said, ‘A boy has been conceived!’ 4“That day— let it be pitch-black. Let God above not ⌞even⌟ care about it. Let no light shine on it. 5Let the darkness and long shadows claim it as their own. Let a dark cloud hang over it. Let the gloom terrify it.
Read all of Job 3Job 3:3 word by word
יֹ֣אבַד י֭וֹם אִוָּ֣לֶד בּ֑וֹ וְהַלַּ֥יְלָה אָ֝מַ֗ר הֹ֣רָה גָֽבֶר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 3:3
- Job 10:18“ ‘Why did you take me out of the womb? I wish I had breathed my last breath before anyone had laid eyes on me.
- Jeremiah 15:10I’m so miserable! Why did my mother give birth to me? I am a man who argues and quarrels with the whole earth. I have never lent or borrowed anything. Yet, everyone curses me.
- Jeremiah 20:14Cursed is the day that I was born, the day that my mother gave birth to me. May it not be blessed.
Commentaries on Job 3:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3There is a man-child conceived - The word הרה harah signifies to conceive; yet here, it seems, it should be taken in the sense of being born, as it is perfectly unlikely that the night of conception should be either distinctly known or published.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Let the day perish - “Perish the day! O that there had never been such a day! Let it be blotted from the memory of man! There is something singularly bold, sublime, and “wild” in this exclamation. It is a burst of feeling where there had been long restraint, and where now it breaks forth in the most vehement and impassioned manner. The word “perish” here יאבד yo'bad expresses the “optative,” and indicates strong desire. So the Septuagint, ̓́ Apoloito “may…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-10Job spoke and risked words of sin (1:21; 2:10). Job cursed the day of his birth in great detail. However, his words sounded more like sad complaints. Job did not curse God as his creator, but he showed grief about the condition of his life.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. the night in which--rather "the night which said." The words in italics are not in the Hebrew. Night is personified and poetically made to speak. So in Job 3:7, and in Psa 19:2. The birth of a male in the East is a matter of joy; often not so of a female.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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