{"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/web/job/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:19:53.313Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":3,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":4,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":26},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Job answered:"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"|Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"|Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"|Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden 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 hidden, whom God has hedged in?"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes.|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 3 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 3](https://primebible.com/web/job/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/3 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}