Job 3

King James Version · 26 verses · 312 cross-references linking it to 159 other chapters

1. 1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.18 cross-references: Jeremiah 20:14–15, Psalms 106:33, Psalms 39:2–3, Job 35:16, Job 3:3
2. 2And Job spake, and said,1 cross-reference: Judges 18:14
3. 3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.7 cross-references: Jeremiah 15:10, Jeremiah 20:14–18, Job 10:18–19
4. 4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.9 cross-references: Revelation 16:10, Matthew 27:45, Acts 27:20, Amos 5:18, Exodus 10:22–23
5. 5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.38 cross-references: Job 10:21–22, Psalms 23:4, Jeremiah 13:16, Job 28:3, Isaiah 9:2
6. 6As 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.
7. 7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.4 cross-references: Isaiah 24:8, Jeremiah 7:34, Revelation 18:22–23, Isaiah 13:20–22
8. 8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.15 cross-references: Job 41:1, Job 41:10, Job 41:25, Matthew 11:17, Mark 5:38
9. 9Let 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:7 cross-references: Job 41:18, Job 30:26, Jeremiah 13:16, Jeremiah 8:15
10. 10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.16 cross-references: Ecclesiastes 6:3–5, 1 Samuel 1:5, Genesis 29:31, Job 10:1, Ecclesiastes 11:10
11. 11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?13 cross-references: Isaiah 46:3, Job 10:18–19, Hosea 9:14, Psalms 58:8, Psalms 71:6
12. 12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?5 cross-references: Genesis 30:3, Isaiah 66:12, Genesis 50:23, Ezekiel 16:4–5
13. 13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,16 cross-references: Job 17:13, Job 19:27, Job 7:21, Job 21:23, Job 14:10–12
14. 14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;17 cross-references: Job 15:28, Isaiah 14:10–16, Psalms 49:6–10, Isaiah 58:12, Ecclesiastes 8:8
15. 15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:8 cross-references: Job 27:16–17, Zephaniah 1:18, Isaiah 2:7, Job 22:25, Zechariah 9:3
16. 16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.9 cross-references: Psalms 58:8, Ecclesiastes 6:3, 1 Corinthians 15:8
17. 17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.21 cross-references: Revelation 14:13, Job 17:16, Job 14:13, Hebrews 4:9, Isaiah 57:1–2
18. 18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.8 cross-references: Job 39:7, Judges 4:3, Isaiah 14:3–4, Exodus 5:6–8, Exodus 5:15–19
19. 19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.13 cross-references: Job 30:23, Hebrews 9:27, Ecclesiastes 8:8, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Luke 16:22–23
20. 20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;31 cross-references: Jeremiah 20:18, Job 7:15–16, Proverbs 31:6, 1 Samuel 1:10, Job 6:9
21. 21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;7 cross-references: Revelation 9:6, Proverbs 2:4, Jonah 4:3, Jonah 4:8, Numbers 11:15
22. 22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23. 23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?14 cross-references: Job 19:8, Lamentations 3:7, Isaiah 40:27, Psalms 88:8, Job 12:14
24. 24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.22 cross-references: Psalms 102:9, Psalms 80:5, Psalms 42:3–4, Psalms 38:8, Isaiah 59:11
25. 25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.10 cross-references: Job 1:5, Job 30:15, Job 31:23
26. 26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.4 cross-references: Job 7:14, Job 27:9, Psalms 143:11

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