# Job 3 ## Job 3:1 - [KJV] After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. - [ASV] After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. - [YLT] After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day. ### Notes on Job 3:1 - ## Job 3:2 - [KJV] And Job spake, and said, - [ASV] And Job answered and said: - [YLT] And Job answereth and saith: -- ### Notes on Job 3:2 - ## Job 3:3 - [KJV] Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night *in which* it was said, There is a man child conceived. - [ASV] Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived. - [YLT] Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: 'A man-child hath been conceived.' ### Notes on Job 3:3 - ## Job 3:4 - [KJV] Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. - [ASV] Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it. - [YLT] That day -- let it be darkness, Let not God require it from above, Nor let light shine upon it. ### Notes on Job 3:4 - ## Job 3:5 - [KJV] Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. - [ASV] Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it. - [YLT] Let darkness and death-shade redeem it, Let a cloud tabernacle upon it, Let them terrify it as the most bitter of days. ### Notes on Job 3:5 - ## Job 3:6 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months. - [YLT] That night -- let thick darkness take it, Let it not be united to days of the year, Into the number of months let it not come. ### Notes on Job 3:6 - ## Job 3:7 - [KJV] Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. - [ASV] Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein. - [YLT] Lo! that night -- let it be gloomy, Let no singing come into it. ### Notes on Job 3:7 - ## Job 3:8 - [KJV] Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. - [ASV] Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan. - [YLT] Let the cursers of day mark it, Who are ready to wake up Leviathan. ### Notes on Job 3:8 - ## Job 3:9 - [KJV] 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: - [ASV] Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark: Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning: - [YLT] Let the stars of its twilight be dark, Let it wait for light, and there is none, And let it not look on the eyelids of the dawn. ### Notes on Job 3:9 - ## Job 3:10 - [KJV] Because it shut not up the doors of my *mother's* womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. - [ASV] Because it shut not up the doors of my *mother's* womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes. - [YLT] Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes. ### Notes on Job 3:10 - ## Job 3:11 - [KJV] Why died I not from the womb? *why* did I *not* give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? - [ASV] Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me? - [YLT] Why from the womb do I not die? From the belly I have come forth and gasp! ### Notes on Job 3:11 - ## Job 3:12 - [KJV] Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? - [ASV] Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck? - [YLT] Wherefore have knees been before me? And what *are* breasts, that I suck? ### Notes on Job 3:12 - ## Job 3:13 - [KJV] For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, - [ASV] For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest, - [YLT] For now, I have lain down, and am quiet, I have slept -- then there is rest to me, ### Notes on Job 3:13 - ## Job 3:14 - [KJV] With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; - [ASV] With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves; - [YLT] With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves. ### Notes on Job 3:14 - ## Job 3:15 - [KJV] Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: - [ASV] Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver: - [YLT] Or with princes -- they have gold, They are filling their houses *with* silver. ### Notes on Job 3:15 - ## Job 3:16 - [KJV] Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants *which* never saw light. - [ASV] Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light. - [YLT] (Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants -- they have not seen light.) ### Notes on Job 3:16 - ## Job 3:17 - [KJV] There the wicked cease *from* troubling; and there the weary be at rest. - [ASV] There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest. - [YLT] There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power. ### Notes on Job 3:17 - ## Job 3:18 - [KJV] *There* the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. - [ASV] There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster. - [YLT] Together prisoners have been at ease, They have not heard the voice of an exactor, ### Notes on Job 3:18 - ## Job 3:19 - [KJV] The small and great are there; and the servant *is* free from his master. - [ASV] The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master. - [YLT] Small and great *are* there the same. And a servant *is* free from his lord. ### Notes on Job 3:19 - ## Job 3:20 - [KJV] Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter *in* soul; - [ASV] Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; - [YLT] Why giveth He to the miserable light, and life to the bitter soul? ### Notes on Job 3:20 - ## Job 3:21 - [KJV] Which long for death, but it *cometh* not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; - [ASV] Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures; - [YLT] Who are waiting for death, and it is not, And they seek it above hid treasures. ### Notes on Job 3:21 - ## Job 3:22 - [KJV] Which rejoice exceedingly, *and* are glad, when they can find the grave? - [ASV] Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave? - [YLT] Who are glad -- unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave. ### Notes on Job 3:22 - ## Job 3:23 - [KJV] *Why is light given* to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? - [ASV] *Why is light given* to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in? - [YLT] To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up? ### Notes on Job 3:23 - ## Job 3:24 - [KJV] For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. - [ASV] For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water. - [YLT] For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters *are* my roarings. ### Notes on Job 3:24 - ## Job 3:25 - [KJV] For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. - [ASV] For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me. - [YLT] For a fear I feared and it meeteth me, And what I was afraid of doth come to me. ### Notes on Job 3:25 - ## Job 3:26 - [KJV] I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. - [ASV] I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh. - [YLT] I was not safe -- nor was I quiet -- Nor was I at rest -- and trouble cometh! ### Notes on Job 3:26 -