Job 3:3
New Revised Standard Version
“Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man-child is conceived.’

Contemporary English Version
Blot out the day of my birth and the night when my parents created a son.

New American Bible
Perish the day on which I was born, the night when they said, “The child is a boy!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived.

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Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived.

Let the day.

Job 10:18,19 Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? O that I had been consumed, that eye might not see me! . . .

Jeremiah 15:10 Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.

Jeremiah 20:14,15 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed. . . .

Context
Job Laments His Birth
2And he said: 3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said: A man child is conceived.4Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from above, and let not the light shine upon it.…
Cross References
Job 3:2
And he said:

Job 3:4
Let that day be turned into darkness, let not God regard it from above, and let not the light shine upon it.

Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother: why hast thou borne me a man of strife, a man of contention to all the earth? I have not lent on usury, neither hath any man lent to me on usury: yet all curse me.

Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me, be blessed.

Job 3:2
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