Job 3:1 Explained in Context

Verse 1. ¹ After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

Verse 2. ² And Job spake, and said,

Verse 3. ³ Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

Verse 4. ⁴ Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

Verse 5. ⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Verse 6. ⁶ 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.

Verse 7. ⁷ Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

Verse 8. ⁸ Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

Verse 9. ⁹ 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:

Verse 10. ¹⁰ Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.