Job 3:2

Bible in Basic English

Job made answer 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:

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 King James Version
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 Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth, ² Job made answer and said, ³ Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world. ⁴ That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it; ⁵ Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it. ⁶ That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. ⁷ As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it; ⁸ Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake. ⁹ Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn. ¹⁰ Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled 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 snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;

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.