Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Let the day perish on which I was to be born,
And the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’

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

May the day I was born perish,
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.'

The Emphasized Bible

Perish, the day wherein I was born, and the night it was said, Lo! a manchild!

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Let the day
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

and the night
לילה ליל ליל 
Layil 
Usage: 233

in which it was said

Usage: 0

There is a man child
גּבר 
Geber 
Usage: 65

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Job

Watsons

Context Readings

Job Regrets His Birth

2 And Job said, 3 Let the day perish on which I was to be born,
And the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
4 “May that day be darkness;
Let not God above care for it,
Nor light shine on it.


Cross References

Job 10:18-19

Why then have You brought me out of the womb?
Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!

Jeremiah 20:14-18

Cursed be the day when I was born;
Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!

Jeremiah 15:10

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me
As a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land!
I have not lent, nor have men lent money to me,
Yet everyone curses me.

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