Job 3:3

In 11 translations

BSB

“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’

KJV

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

WEB

“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

ASV

Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

LSV

“Let the day perish in which I am born, || And the night that has said: A man-child has been conceived.

YLT

Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: 'A man-child hath been conceived.'

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night when it was sayde, There is a man childe conceiued.

JPS

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night wherein it was said: 'A man-child is brought forth.'

LXXE

Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a man-child!

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Original-language editions

WLC

יֹ֣אבַד י֭וֹם אִוָּ֣לֶד בּ֑וֹ וְהַלַּ֥יְלָה אָ֝מַ֗ר הֹ֣רָה גָֽבֶר׃We read one or more accents in L differently than BHS. Often this notation indicates a typographical error in BHS.

LXX-Br

Ἀπόλοιτο ἡ ἡμέρα ἐν ᾗ ἐγεννήθην, καὶ ἡ νὺξ ἐκείνη ᾗ εἶπαν, Ἰδοὺ ἄρσεν.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Jeremiah 20:14–18Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy. May that man be like the cities…
• Job 10:18–19Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me! If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
• Jeremiah 15:10Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.

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