Job 3
KJ3 Literal Translation — Chapter 3 of 42
Chapter Summary
1 Job curses the day of his birth. 13 The ease of death. 20 He complains of life, because of his anguish.
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People & Context
The sufferer who breaks his silence, opening his mouth to curse the day of his birth and long for death.
Timeline
Breaking the silence, Job curses the day he was born and the night of his conception, wishing it to be swallowed by darkness and erased from the calendar.
Job 3:1-10Job questions why he did not die from the womb, longing for the quiet rest of the grave where kings, prisoners, and slaves are equally free from turmoil.
Job 3:11-19Job laments that light and life are given to sufferers who long for death. He describes his own unceasing dread and sighing.
Job 3:20-26Read Job 3 in the KJ3 Reader
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