Job 3:3

Perish the day in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, A man is conceived.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2and he said,

4That day be turned into darknesses; God seek not it [from] above, and be it not in mind, neither be it lightened with light. (Let that day be turned into darkness; let God not seek it out from above, and be it forgotten, and let no light shine upon it.)

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Cross References

Job 10:18Lord, why hast thou led me out of the womb? Why not had I erst been wasted, that an eye had not seen me (or Why had I not erstwhile been destroyed, so that no eye had seen me).

Jeremiah 20:14Cursed be the day wherein I was born, the day wherein my mother childed me be not blessed. (Cursed be the day when I was born, may the day when my mother gave birth to me be not blessed.)

Matthew Henry on Job 3:2-11

Job Curses His Day. ( b. c. 1520.) 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. 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto… Read the whole commentary →

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