Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
And the night which said, ‘A
Holman Bible
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
Yowm
'abad
Yalad
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Regrets His Birth
2 And Job spake, and said, 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Names
Cross References
Job 10:18-19
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.