Job 3:1 Cross References - ISV

¹ Job Laments the Day He was BornAfter this, Job spoke up solemnly, cursing the day he was born.

¹¹ However, stretch out your hand and strike everything he owns, and he will curse you to your face.”

²² Job neither sinned nor charged God with wrongdoing in all of this.

⁵ However, stretch out your hand and strike his bones and flesh, and he’ll curse you to your face, won’t he?”

⁹ Job Refuses to Curse GodThen his wife told him, “Do you remain firm in your integrity? Curse God and die!”
¹⁰ But he replied to her, “You’re talking like foolish women do. Are we to accept what is good from God but not tragedy?”
Throughout all of this, Job did not sin by what he said.

³ “Let the day when I was born be annihilated, along with the night when it was announced, ‘It’s a boy!’

¹⁶ When he began speaking, he communicated only worthlessness; he added words upon words without knowing anything.”

² I was as silent as a mute person; I said nothing, not even something good, and my distress deepened. ³ My heart within me became incensed; as I thought about it, the fire burned. Then I spoke out:

³³ For they rebelled against him, so that he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.

¹⁴ Jeremiah Curses the Day of His BirthLet the day on which I was born be cursed. Don’t let the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed. ¹⁵ Cursed is the person who brought the good news to my father, “A baby boy has been born to you,” making him very happy.