Job 3:3
Verse 3 of 26. The 3rd of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.
1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2And Job spake, and said,
3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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.
7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
Job 3:3 in the World English Bible
“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’Read Job 3:3 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Job 3:3
That earth might forget it: Let it perish (v. 3); let it not be joined to the days of the year, v. 6. "Let it be not only not inserted in the calendar in red letters, as the day of the king's nativity useth to be" (and Job was a king, ch. xxix. 25), "but let it be erased and blotted out, and buried in oblivion.
Read Matthew Henry on Job 3:1–10: Job Curses His Day. (b. c. 1520.)
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