Job 3

Job 3 in full

King James Version, 26 verses. Tap a reference to link straight to a single verse.

1. Job 3:1

   After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

2. Job 3:2

   And Job spake, and said,

3. Job 3:3

   Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

4. Job 3:4

   Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

5. Job 3:5

   Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

6. Job 3:6

   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.

7. Job 3:7

   Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

8. Job 3:8

   Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

9. Job 3:9

   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:

10. Job 3:10

    Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

11. Job 3:11

    Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

12. Job 3:12

    Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

13. Job 3:13

    For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

14. Job 3:14

    With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

15. Job 3:15

    Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

16. Job 3:16

    Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

17. Job 3:17

    There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

18. Job 3:18

    There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

19. Job 3:19

    The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

20. Job 3:20

    Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

21. Job 3:21

    Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

22. Job 3:22

    Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

23. Job 3:23

    Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

24. Job 3:24

    For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

25. Job 3:25

    For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

26. Job 3:26

    I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

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Job 3 is part of Job, book 18 of the 66 in the King James Bible. Read the 42 chapters straight through, or search any word across all 66 books.