Job 3:3
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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.

Lexicon
“May the day
י֭וֹם (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

of my birth
אִוָּ֣לֶד (’iw·wā·leḏ)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

perish,
יֹ֣אבַד (yō·ḇaḏ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6: To wander away, lose oneself, to perish

and the night
וְהַלַּ֥יְלָה (wə·hal·lay·lāh)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3915: A twist, night, adversity

it was said,
אָ֝מַ֗ר (’ā·mar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

‘A boy
גָֽבֶר׃ (ḡā·ḇer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1397: A valiant man, warrior, a person simply

is conceived.’
הֹ֣רָה (hō·rāh)
Verb - QalPass - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2030: Pregnant


Additional Translations
“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

Let the day perish in which I was born, and that night in which they said, Behold a man-child!

Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which said, There is a man child conceived.

Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a mail child conceived.

"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'

Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: 'A man-child hath been conceived.'
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