Thematic Bible
Job 3:1 (show verse)
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 3:2 (show verse)
And Job said:
No Themes for this verse.
Job 3:3 (show verse)
"Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man is conceived.'
No Themes for this verse.
Job 3:4 (show verse)
Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.
Job 3:5 (show verse)
Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Job 3:6 (show verse)
That night--let thick darkness seize it! Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
Job 3:7 (show verse)
Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry enter it.
Job 3:8 (show verse)
Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.
Job 3:9 (show verse)
Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning,
Job 3:10 (show verse)
because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 3:11 (show verse)
"Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 3:12 (show verse)
Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 3:13 (show verse)
For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,
No Themes for this verse.
Job 3:14 (show verse)
with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,
No Themes for this verse.
Job 3:15 (show verse)
or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 3:16 (show verse)
Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 3:17 (show verse)
There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
Job 3:18 (show verse)
There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Job 3:19 (show verse)
The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
Job 3:20 (show verse)
"Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Job 3:21 (show verse)
who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
Job 3:22 (show verse)
who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 3:23 (show verse)
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
Job 3:24 (show verse)
For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 3:25 (show verse)
For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 3:26 (show verse)
I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes."
No Themes for this verse.