Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Perish, the day wherein I was born, and the night it was said, Lo! a manchild!
New American Standard Bible
And the night which said, ‘A
King James Version
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Holman Bible
and the night when they said,
“A boy is conceived.”
International Standard Version
"Let the day when I was born be annihilated, along with the night when it was announced, "It's a boy!'
A Conservative Version
Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
American Standard Version
Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
Amplified
“Let the day on which I was born perish,
And the night which announced: ‘There is a man-child conceived.’
Bible in Basic English
Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.
Darby Translation
Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.
Julia Smith Translation
The day shall perish I shall bring forth in it, and the night said, A male was conceived.
King James 2000
Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Let [the] day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man-child is conceived.'
Modern King James verseion
Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night which said, A man-child is conceived.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
and the night in the which it was said, 'There is a man child conceived.'
NET Bible
"Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said, 'A man has been conceived!'
New Heart English Bible
"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'
Webster
Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a mail child conceived.
World English Bible
"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'
Youngs Literal Translation
Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: 'A man-child hath been conceived.'
Interlinear
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Yalad
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Regrets His Birth
2 So then Job began, and said: 3 Perish, the day wherein I was born, and the night it was said, Lo! a manchild! 4 That day, be it darkness, - Let not God enquire after it from above, May there shine upon it no clear beam:
Names
Cross References
Job 10:18-19
Wherefore then, from the womb, didst thou bring me forth? I might have breathed my last, and, no eye, have seen me.
Jeremiah 20:14-18
Accursed, be the day on which I was born, - The day when my mother bare me, let it not be blessed!
Jeremiah 15:10
Woe to me! my mother, That thou didst bear me, A man of litigation and a man of contention to all the land, - I have not lent on interest Nor have they lent on interest to me, Every one, hath treated me with contempt.