Job 3

Verse 1

WEB After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.

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

TSK After: job 1:22, job 2:10; opened: job 35:16, ps 39:2,3, ps 106:33; cursed: job 3:3, job 1:11, job 2:5,9, jer 20:14,15

Verse 2

WEB Job answered:

KJV And Job spake, and said,

TSK spake: jud 18:14

Verse 3

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

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

TSK Let the day: job 10:18,19, jer 15:10, jer 20:14,15

Verse 4

WEB Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

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

TSK darkness: ex 10:22,23, joe 2:2, am 5:18, mt 27:45, ac 27:20, re 16:10; God regard: de 11:12

Verse 5

WEB 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.

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

TSK the shadow: job 10:21,22, job 16:16, job 24:17, job 28:3, job 38:17, ps 23:4, ps 44:19, ps 107:10,14, isa 9:2, jer 2:6, jer 13:16, am 5:8, mt 4:16, lu 1:79; let a cloud: de 4:11, eze 30:3, eze 34:12, joe 2:2, heb 12:18; let the blackness: jer 4:28, am 8:10

Verse 6

WEB 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.

KJV 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.

TSK No cross references.

Verse 7

WEB Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

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

TSK solitary: isa 13:20-22, isa 24:8, jer 7:34, re 18:22,23

Verse 8

WEB Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

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

TSK who are ready: 2ch 35:25, jer 9:17,18, am 5:16, mt 11:17, mr 5:38; their mourning: job 41:1,10

Verse 9

WEB 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,

KJV 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:

TSK look for light: job 30:26, jer 8:15, jer 13:16; the dawning of the day: job 41:18

Verse 10

WEB because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

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

TSK it shut not: job 10:18,19, ge 20:18, ge 29:31, 1sa 1:5, ec 6:3-5, jer 20:17; hid: job 6:2,3, job 10:1, job 23:2, ec 11:10

Verse 11

WEB “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

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

TSK died I: ps 58:8, jer 15:10, ho 9:14; when I came: ps 22:9,10, ps 71:6, ps 139:13-16, isa 46:3

Verse 12

WEB Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

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

TSK the knees: ge 30:3, ge 50:23, isa 66:12, eze 16:4,5

Verse 13

WEB For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

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

TSK then had I been at rest: ec 6:3-5, ec 9:10

Verse 14

WEB with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

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

TSK kings: job 30:23, 1ki 2:10, 1ki 11:43, ps 49:6-10,14, ps 89:48, ec 8:8, isa 14:10-16, eze 27:18-32; which built: job 15:28, isa 5:8, eze 26:20

Verse 15

WEB or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

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

TSK who filled their houses: job 22:25, job 27:16, nu 22:18, 1ki 10:27, isa 2:7, zep 1:18, zec 9:3

Verse 16

WEB or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

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

TSK an hidden: ps 58:8, 1co 15:8

Verse 17

WEB There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

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

TSK the wicked: job 14:13, ps 55:5-8, mt 10:28, lu 12:4, 2th 1:6,7, 2pe 2:8; at rest: isa 57:1,2, heb 4:9,11, re 14:13

Verse 18

WEB There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.

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

TSK they: job 39:7, ex 5:6-8,15-19, jud 4:3, isa 14:3,4

Verse 19

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

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

TSK The small: job 30:23, ps 49:2,6-10, ec 8:8, ec 12:5,7, lu 16:22,23, heb 9:27; and the servant: ps 49:14-20

Verse 20

WEB “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

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

TSK Wherefore: job 6:9, job 7:15,16, jer 20:18; light: job 3:16, job 33:28,30; the bitter: job 7:15,16, 1sa 1:10, 2ki 4:27, pr 31:6

Verse 21

WEB Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

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

TSK long: nu 11:15, 1ki 19:4, jon 4:3,8, re 9:6; dig: pr 2:4

Verse 22

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

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

TSK No cross references.

Verse 23

WEB Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

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

TSK whose way: isa 40:27; hedged in: job 12:14, job 19:8, ps 31:8, la 3:7,9, ho 2:6

Verse 24

WEB For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

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

TSK my sighing: job 7:19, ps 80:5, ps 102:9; my roarings: ps 22:1,2, ps 32:3, ps 38:8, isa 59:11, la 3:8

Verse 25

WEB For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

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

TSK that which: job 1:5, job 31:23

Verse 26

WEB I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes.”

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

TSK yet trouble came: job 27:9, ps 143:11