Job 3:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 10:18-19 : 18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me, 19 And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.
  • Jer 20:14-18 : 14 A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me. 15 A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad. 16 May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day; 17 Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever. 18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?
  • Jer 15:10 : 10 Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 3:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1 Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,

    2 Job made answer and said,

  • Job 3:4-12
    9 verses
    83%

    4 That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

    5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

    6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

    7 As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;

    8 Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.

    9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

    10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

    11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

    12 Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?

  • Jer 20:14-18
    5 verses
    81%

    14 A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.

    15 A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad.

    16 May that man be like the towns overturned by the Lord without mercy: let a cry for help come to his ears in the morning, and the sound of war in the middle of the day;

    17 Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.

    18 Why did I come from my mother's body to see pain and sorrow, so that my days might be wasted with shame?

  • Job 3:16-17
    2 verses
    78%

    16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

    17 There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

  • Job 10:18-20
    3 verses
    77%

    18 Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,

    19 And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

    20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

  • Job 14:1
    73%

    1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

  • Job 7:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3 So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.

    4 When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

  • Lam 3:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1 I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.

    2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

    3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

  • Eccl 6:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3 If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

    4 In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

  • Job 3:23
    70%

    23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

  • Job 1:21
    70%

    21 With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

  • Job 3:20
    69%

    20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

  • Job 23:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 And Job made answer and said,

    2 Even today my outcry is bitter; his hand is hard on my sorrow.

  • 1 Kgs 3:19
    69%

    19 In the night, this woman, sleeping on her child, was the cause of its death.

  • Lam 3:6
    69%

    6 He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

  • Job 31:8
    69%

    8 Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

  • Job 23:17
    69%

    17 For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

  • Job 17:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12 They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

    13 If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

  • Ps 51:5
    68%

    5 Truly, I was formed in evil, and in sin did my mother give me birth.

  • 1 Kgs 3:21
    68%

    21 And when I got up to give my child the breast, I saw that it was dead; but in the morning, looking at it with care, I saw that it was not my son.

  • Job 15:14
    68%

    14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

  • Jer 16:3
    68%

    3 For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:

  • Hos 13:13
    68%

    13 The pains of a woman in childbirth will come on him: he is an unwise son, for at this time it is not right for him to keep his place when children come to birth.

  • Job 25:4
    68%

    4 How then is it possible for man to be upright before God? or how may he be clean who is a son of woman?

  • Job 14:13
    68%

    13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • Isa 21:3
    68%

    3 For this cause I am full of bitter grief; pains like the pains of a woman in childbirth have come on me: I am bent down with sorrow at what comes to my ears; I am shocked by what I see.

  • Job 18:6
    68%

    6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

  • Job 5:7
    68%

    7 But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.