Speaker · human
Job
Verses spoken by Job
- Job 3:1 — After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
- Job 3:2 — And Job spake, and said,
- Job 3:3 — Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
- Job 3:4 — Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
- Job 3:5 — Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
- Job 3:6 — As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
- Job 3:7 — Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
- Job 3:8 — Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
- Job 3:9 — Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
- Job 3:10 — Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
- Job 3:11 — Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
- Job 3:12 — Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
- Job 3:13 — For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
- Job 3:14 — With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
- Job 3:15 — Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: