Job 3:2

New King James Version

And Job spoke, and said:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He said:

Hebrew Names Version
Iyov answered:

King James Version
And Job spake, and said,

English Standard Version
And Job said:

New Century Version
saying:

New English Translation
Job spoke up and said:

Amplified Bible
And Job said,

New American Standard Bible
And Job said,

World English Bible
Job answered:

Geneva Bible (1587)
And Iob cryed out, and sayd,

Legacy Standard Bible
And Job answered and said,

Berean Standard Bible
And this is what he said:

Contemporary English Version
by saying to God:

Complete Jewish Bible
"Perish the day I was born and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.'

Darby Translation
And Job answered and said,

Easy-to-Read Version
He said,

George Lamsa Translation
Then Job spoke and said,

Good News Translation
Job O God, put a curse on the day I was born; put a curse on the night when I was conceived! <

Lexham English Bible
Thus Job spoke up and said,

Literal Translation
And Job answered and said:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and sayde:

American Standard Version
And Job answered and said:

Bible in Basic English
Job made answer and said,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iob aunswered, and sayde:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Job spoke, and said:

King James Version (1611)
And Iob spake, and said,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
saying,

English Revised Version
And Job answered and said:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and curside his dai, and seide, Perische the dai in which Y was borun,

Update Bible Version
And Job answered and said:

Webster's Bible Translation
And Job spoke, and said,

New Living Translation
He said:

New Life Bible
He said,

New Revised Standard
Job said:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then Job began, and said:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said:

Revised Standard Version
And Job said:

Young's Literal Translation
And Job answereth and saith: --

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And Job said,

Contextual Overview

¹ After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. ² And Job spoke, and said: ³ "May the day perish on which I was born, And the night in which it was said, "A male child is conceived.' ⁴ May that day be darkness; May God above not seek it, Nor the light shine upon it. ⁵ May darkness and the shadow of death claim it; May a cloud settle on it; May the blackness of the day terrify it. ⁶ As for that night, may darkness seize it;May it not rejoice [fn] among the days of the year,May it not come into the number of the months. ⁷ Oh, may that night be barren! May no joyful shout come into it! ⁸ May those curse it who curse the day, Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan. ⁹ May the stars of its morning be dark; May it look for light, but have none, And not see the dawning of the day; ¹⁰ Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

spake: Heb. answered, Judges 18:14

Reciprocal: Job 4:1 - answered

Cross-References

Psalms 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; They are like the deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Job spake, and said. Or "answered and said" t, though not a word was spoken to him by his friends; he answered to his own calamity, and to their silence, as Schmidt observes; and this word is sometimes used when nothing goes before, to which the answer is, as many Jewish writers observe, as in Exodus 32:27; Jarchi interprets it, "he cried", and so some others u render it: from henceforwards to Job 42:6, this book is written in a poetical style, in Hebrew metre as is thought, which at present is pretty much unknown, even to the Jews themselves; some have been of opinion, that the following discourses between Job and his friends were not originally delivered in metre, but were put into this form by the penman or writer of the book; but of this we cannot be certain; in the Targum in the king of Spain's Bible it is, "and Job sung and said".

t ויען "et respondit", Pagninus, Montanus, Schmidt, Schultens, Michaelis. u "Clamavitquo", Mercerus; "nam proloquens", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And Job spake - Margin, as in Hebrew, “answered.” The Hebrew word used here ענה ‛ânâh “to answer,” is often employed when one commences a discourse, even though no question had preceded. It is somewhat in the sense of replying to a subject, or of speaking in a case where a question might appropriately be asked; Isaiah 14:0:l0 (Hebrew), Zechariah 3:4; Deuteronomy 26:5 (Hebrew), Deuteronomy 27:14 (Hebrew). The word “to answer” ἀποκρίνομαι apokrinomai is frequently used in this way in the New Testament; Matthew 17:4, Matthew 17:17; Matthew 28:5; Mark 9:5; Mark 10:51, et al.