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Job 3:1–3

Job Deplores His Birth

3 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. And Job 1spoke, and said:

3 “May athe day perish on which I was born,

And the night in which it was said,

‘A male child is conceived.’

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Job 3:1–3 — The New International Version (NIV)

After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. He said:

“May the day of my birth perish,

and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’

Job 3:1–3 — English Standard Version (ESV)

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. And Job said:

“Let the day perish on which I was born,

and the night that said,

‘A man is conceived.’

Job 3:1–3 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. And Job spake, and said,

Let the day perish wherein I was born,

And the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

Job 3:1–3 — New Living Translation (NLT)

At last Job spoke, and he cursed the day of his birth. He said:

“Let the day of my birth be erased,

and the night I was conceived.

Job 3:1–3 — New Century Version (NCV)

After seven days Job cried out and cursed the day he had been born, saying:

“Let the day I was born be destroyed,

and the night it was said, ‘A boy is born!’

Job 3:1–3 — American Standard Version (ASV)

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. And Job answered and said:

Let the day perish wherein I was born,

And the night which said,

There is a man-child conceived.

Job 3:1–3 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day. And Job answered and said, Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.

Job 3:1–3 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

After all this, Job ⸤finally⸥ opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born. Job said, 

“Scratch out the day I was born 

and the night that said, ‘A boy has been conceived!’ 

Job 3:1–3 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

After this, Job began to speak and cursed the day he was born. He said:

May the day I was born perish,

and the night when they said,

“A boy is conceived.”

Job 3:1–3 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. Job said:

“Let the day perish in which I was born,

and the night that said,

‘A man-child is conceived.’

Job 3:1–3 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed his day. Thus Job spoke up and said,

“Let the day perish on which I was born,

and the night that said, ‘A man-child is conceived.’

Job 3:1–3 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

After a while, Job opened his mouth to speak. He called down a curse on the day he had been born. He said,

“May the day I was born be wiped out.

May the night be wiped away when people said, ‘A boy is born!’

Job 3:1–3 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

And Job said,

“Let the day perish on which I was to be born,

And the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’


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