{"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/kjv/job/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-29T15:32:09.127Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","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 spake, and said,"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night <i>in which</i> it was 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 stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"<i>As for</i> 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."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but <i>have</i> none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Because it shut not up the doors of my <i>mother's</i> womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Why died I not from the womb? <i>why</i> did I <i>not</i> give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate 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 <i>which</i> never saw light."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"There the wicked cease <i>from</i> troubling; and there the weary be at rest."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"<i>There</i> the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"The small and great are there; and the servant <i>is</i> free from his master."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter <i>in</i> soul;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Which long for death, but it <i>cometh</i> not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Which rejoice exceedingly, <i>and</i> are glad, when they can find the grave?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"<i>Why is light given</i> 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 the waters."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 3 (KJV)","markdown":"[Job 3](https://primebible.com/kjv/job/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/job/3 (accessed 2026-05-29)."}}