Job 3
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2And Job spake, and said,
3Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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.
7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
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:
10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
15Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
18There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
21Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
Words in this chapter
Definitions are Strong's own wording from his Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Counts are how often each word appears in this chapter, from the tagged text.
- לֹאlôʼH38088× in this chapter
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
- יוֹםyôwmH31176× in this chapter
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
- כִּיkîyH35886× in this chapter
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
- אַלʼalH4086× in this chapter
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
- בּוֹאbôwʼH9355× in this chapter
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
- הוּאhûwʼH19314× in this chapter
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are
- הָיָהhâyâhH19613× in this chapter
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
- אוֹרʼôwrH2163× in this chapter
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
- לַיִלlayilH39153× in this chapter
properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
- מָהmâhH41003× in this chapter
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
- נוּחַnûwachH51173× in this chapter
to rest, i.e. settle down; used in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, intransitive, transitive and causative (to dwell, stay, let fall, place, let alone, withdraw, give comfort, etc.)
- שָׁםshâmH80333× in this chapter
there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence
- גֶּבֶרgeberH13972× in this chapter
properly, a valiant man or warrior; generally, a person simply
- אוֹʼôwH1762× in this chapter
desire (and so probably in Proverbs 31:4); hence (by way of alternative) or, also if
- חֹשֶׁךְchôshekH28222× in this chapter
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
- אִיּוֹבʼÎyôwbH3472× in this chapter
Ijob, the patriarch famous for his patience
- אַיִןʼayinH3692× in this chapter
a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle
- אֱלוֹהַּʼĕlôwahhH4332× in this chapter
a deity or the Deity
- אָמַרʼâmarH5592× in this chapter
to say (used with great latitude)
- סָתַרçâtharH56412× in this chapter
to hide (by covering), literally or figuratively
- עַלʻalH59212× in this chapter
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
- עִםʻimH59732× in this chapter
adverb or preposition, with (i.e. in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English)
- רָאָהrâʼâhH72002× in this chapter
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
- רֹגֶזrôgezH72672× in this chapter
commotion, restlessness (of a horse), crash (of thunder), disquiet, anger
- שָׁקַטshâqaṭH82522× in this chapter
to repose (usually figurative)
- אֲשֶׁרʼăsherH8342× in this chapter
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.
- אֵתʼêthH8532× in this chapter
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
- בֶּטֶןbeṭenH9902× in this chapter
the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything
- בַּיִתbayithH10041× in this chapter
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
- בָּנָהbânâhH11291× in this chapter
to build (literally and figuratively)
- אָדוֹןʼâdôwnH1131× in this chapter
sovereign, i.e. controller (human or divine)
- בְּעַדbᵉʻadH11571× in this chapter
in up to or over against; generally at, beside, among, behind, for, etc.
- בָּעַתbâʻathH12041× in this chapter
to fear
- בֶּרֶךְberekH12901× in this chapter
a knee
- גָּאַלgâʼalH13501× in this chapter
to be the next of kin (and as such to buy back a relative's property, marry his widow, etc.)
- גָּדוֹלgâdôwlH14191× in this chapter
great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
- גָּוַעgâvaʻH14781× in this chapter
to breathe out, i.e. (by implication) expire
- גִּילgîylH15241× in this chapter
a revolution (of time, i.e. an age); also joy
- גַּלְמוּדgalmûwdH15651× in this chapter
sterile (as wrapped up too hard); figuratively, desolate
- דֶּלֶתdelethH18171× in this chapter
something swinging, i.e. the valve of adoor