Job 3:2–4
And Job spake, and said,
And Iob †spake, and said,
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- †Hebrew wordingHebr. answered.
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
*Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night in which it was said, There is a man-childe conceiued.
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- *Cross-referenceChap. 10.18,19. iere. 20.14.
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regard it from aboue, neither let the light shine vpon it.
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From verse 2
- Judges 18:14Rank 1 from verse 2
14¶ Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
14¶ Then answered the fiue men that went to spie out the countrey of Laish, and saide vnto their brethren, Doe ye know that there is in these houses an Ephod, and Teraphim, and a grauen image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what ye haue to doe.
From verse 3
- Jeremiah 15:10Rank 1 from verse 3
10¶ Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
10¶ *Woe is mee, my mother, that that thou hast borne me a man of strife, and a man of contention to the whole earth: I haue neither lent on vsurie, nor men haue lent to me on vsurie, yet euery one of them doeth curse me.
- Jeremiah 20:14–18Rank 2 from verse 3
14¶ Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
15Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
16And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;
17Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
18Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?
14¶ Cursed be the day wherein I was borne: let not the day wherein my mother bare mee, be blessed.
15*Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying: A man child is borne vnto thee, making him very glad.
16*And let that man be as the cities which the LORD ouerthrew and repented not: and let him heare the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noonetide,
17Because he slew me not from the wombe: or that my mother might haue beene my graue, and her wombe to be alwaies great with me.
18*Wherefore came I forth out of the wombe to see labour and sorrow, that my daies should be consumed with shame?
- Job 10:18–19Rank 3 from verse 3
18Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
19I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
18*Wherfore then hast thou brought me forth out of the wombe? Oh that I had giuen vp the ghost, and no eye had seene me!
19I should haue bene as though I had not bene, I should haue bene caried from the wombe to the graue.
From verse 4
- Acts 27:20Rank 1 from verse 4
- Deuteronomy 11:12Rank 3 from verse 4
12A land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
12A lande, which the LORD thy God †careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy God are alwayes vpon it, from the beginning of the yeere, euen vnto the end of the yeere.
- Exodus 10:22–23Rank 4 from verse 4
22And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
23They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
22And Moses stretched foorth his hand toward heauen: and there was a thicke darkenesse in all the land of Egypt three dayes.
23They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three dayes: *but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
2A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
2A day of darkenesse and of gloominesse, a day of clouds and of thicke darkenesse, as the morning spread vpon the mountaines: a great people and a strong, there hath not beene euer the like, neither shall be any more after it, euen to the yeres †of many generations.
- Matthew 27:45Rank 6 from verse 4
- Revelation 16:10Rank 7 from verse 4
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Job 3:2
The past tense of speak: uttered or expressed words, addressed someone, or communicated a matter in words.
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Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
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Job 3:3
Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.
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Sense 1: Light or the period of light between morning and evening, as distinguished from night. Sense 2: A complete daily cycle. Sense 3: A specified time, occasion, period, age, or season.
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Sense 1: Of a living person or creature, to die, be killed, be destroyed, or be lost. Sense 2: Of a thing, condition, plan, thought, or work, to be ruined, decay, fail, vanish, or come to nothing.
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In what or which place, thing, time, state, action, respect, or matter.
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1. The dark part of the daily cycle distinguished from day, from evening until morning, or any portion of it. 2. A time or condition compared with night or darkness.
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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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1. An interrogative or relative pronoun identifying one or more persons or things from a stated or implied set. 2. That which; what.
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Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.
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1. A son or daughter; an offspring or descendant. 2. A young person or infant, considered by age or development. 3. In 'with child,' pregnant or carrying an unborn child. 4. One described as belonging to, derived from, characterized by, or dependent upon another person, group, or condition.
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Sense 1: Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of conceive, meaning to become pregnant. Sense 2: To form an idea, plan, purpose, or understanding in the mind.
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Job 3:4
Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.
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Sense 1: Light or the period of light between morning and evening, as distinguished from night. Sense 2: A complete daily cycle. Sense 3: A specified time, occasion, period, age, or season.
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Sense 1: Absence of light. Sense 2: Obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.
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The one true God.
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Respect; esteem; reverence; that view of the mind which springs from value, estimable qualities, or any thing that excites admiration.
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1. Also not; nor, introducing or joining a further negative statement or prohibition. 2. Not either, or none, of the alternatives named, commonly in a neither ... nor construction.
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Sense 1: Brightness or illumination. Sense 2: A source or opening that gives light. Sense 3: Figuratively, truth, knowledge, revelation, life, or favour contrasted with darkness. Sense 4: To illuminate or kindle. Sense 5: To alight or come upon. Sense 6: Slight, easy, swift, or not heavy.
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To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor. To give light, real or figurative.
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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.
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3:1AFTER this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
3:1¶ After this, opened Iob his mouth, and cursed his day.
3:2And Job spake, and said,
3:2And Iob †spake, and said,
Selected passage3:3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
3:3*Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night in which it was said, There is a man-childe conceiued.
Selected passage3:4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
3:4Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regard it from aboue, neither let the light shine vpon it.
Selected passage3:5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
3:5Let darkenes and the shadowe of death ‖staine it, let a cloud dwell vpon it, ‖let the blacknes of the day terrifie it.
3:6As 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.
3:6As for that night, let darkenesse seaze vpon it, ‖let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, let it not come into the number of the moneths.
3:7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
3:7Loe, let that night be solitarie, let no ioyfull voice come therein.
3:8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
3:8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise vp ‖their mourning.
3:9Let 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:
3:9Let the starres of the twilight thereof be darke, let it looke for light, but haue none, neither let it see† the dawning of the day:
3:10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
3:10Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hid sorrowe from mine eyes.
3:11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
3:11Why died I not from the wombe? why did I not giue vp the ghost when I came out of the bellie?
3:12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
3:12Why did the knees preuent mee? or why the breasts, that I should sucke?
3:13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
3:13For now should I haue lien still and beene quiet, I should haue slept; then had I bene at rest,
3:14With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
3:14With Kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselues,
3:15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
3:15Or with Princes that had golde, who filled their houses with siluer:
3:16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
3:16Or as an hidden vntimely birth, I had not bene; as infants which neuer saw light.
3:17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
3:17There the wicked cease from troubling: and there the †wearie be at rest.
3:18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
3:18 There the prisoners rest together, they heare not the voice of the oppressour.
3:19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
3:19The small and great are there, and the seruant is free from his master.
3:20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
3:20Wherefore is light giuen to him that is in misery, and life vnto the bitter in soule?
3:21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
3:21Which †long for death, but it commeth not, and dig for it more then for hid treasures:
3:22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
3:22Which reioice exceedingly, and are glad when they can finde the graue?
3:23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
3:23 Why is light giuen to a man, whose way is hid, *and whom God hath hedged in?
3:24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
3:24For my sighing commeth †before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the waters.
3:25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
3:25For †the thing which I greatly feared is come vpon me, and that which I was afraid of, is come vnto me.
3:26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
3:26I was not in safetie, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet: yet trouble came.