{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/asv/job/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T04:53:58.499Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ASV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":3,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":26},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And Job answered and said:"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Lo, let that night be barren; Let no joyful voice come therein."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"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:"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bare me?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver:"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"The small and the great are there: And the servant is free from his master."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For the thing which I fear cometh upon me, And that which I am afraid of cometh unto me."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 3 (ASV)","markdown":"[Job 3](https://primebible.com/asv/job/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ASV. https://primebible.com/asv/job/3 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}