{"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/erv/job/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T19:34:10.407Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","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 regard it from above, 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 I came out of the belly?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts, 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, which 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 an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be 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 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":"Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Which 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 roarings 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 (ERV)","markdown":"[Job 3](https://primebible.com/erv/job/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/job/3 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}