LEB by section JOB 3:1

Job Regrets His Birth

3 Afterward[fn] Job opened his mouth and cursed[fn] his day. 2 Thus[fn] Job spoke up[fn] and said,

3 the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man-child is conceived.’
4 [fn] darkness; may God not seek it from above,
nor may daylight shine on it.
5  let clouds[fn] settle on it;
let them[fn] terrify it with the blackness[fn] of day.
6 [fn] let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
let it not enter among the number of the months.
7 [fn] barren; let a joyful song not enter it.
8  those who are skilled at rousing Leviathan.
9  let it hope for light but[fn] there be none,
and let it not see the eyelids of dawn
10 mother’s womb, nor[fn] did it hide trouble from my eyes.

3:1 Literally “After thus”

3:1 A different term than that employed in 1:5, 11; 2:5, 9

3:2 Hebrew “And”

3:2 Literally “answered”

3:2 Or “be”

3:2 Literally “cloud”

3:2 Masculine plural referring to all three entities mentioned in this verse

3:2 Literally “blacknesses”

3:2 Literally “That night, let darkness seize it”

3:2 Or “be”

3:2 Hebrew “and”

3:2 Hebrew “And”