The Meaning of Job 3:3 Explained

Job 3:3

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

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

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

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

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 3:3?

MEANING: What does Job 3:3 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 3:3 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 3:3?

What is the context of Job 3:3?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 3:3 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 3:1-26 - Is Life Worth Living?

In the closing paragraphs of the previous chapter three friends arrive. Teman is Edom; for Shuah see Genesis 25:2; Naamah is Arabia. The group of spectators, gathered round Job's mound, reverently make way for them.

Job opens his mouth in a curse. But it was not, as Satan had expected, against God. The Hebrew word is different from that used in Job 2:9. He does not curse God, but the day of his birth, and asks that his stripped and suffering existence may be brought to as speedy an end as possible. Job's words are very profitable for all whose way is hid. Is the joy of life fled? Yet its duties remain. Continue in these and the path will lead back to light.

This opening elegy consists of two parts: the first, Job 3:1-10, calls on darkness to blot out the day which witnessed the beginning of so sad a life; the second, Job 3:11-26, inquires why, if he were doomed to be born, the luxury of instant death had not been also granted. Oh, human heart, of what sore anguish art thou not capable! [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 3

¹ Job curses the day and services of his birth
¹³ The ease of death
²⁰ He complains of life, because of his anguish

What do the individual words in Job 3:3 mean?

May perish the day I was born on which and the night [in which] it was said is conceived a male child

יֹ֣אבַד י֭וֹם אִוָּ֣לֶד בּ֑וֹ וְהַלַּ֥יְלָה אָ֝מַ֗ר הֹ֣רָה גָֽבֶר

יֹ֣אבַד	May perish
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular Root: אָבַד Sense: perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed.
י֭וֹם	the day
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: יׄום Sense: day, time, year.
אִוָּ֣לֶד	I was born
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Imperfect, first person common singular Root: יָלַד Sense: to bear, bring forth, beget, gender, travail.
בּ֑וֹ	on which
Parse: Preposition, third person masculine singular
וְהַלַּ֥יְלָה	and the night [in which]
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Article, Noun, masculine singular Root: לַיִל Sense: night.
אָ֝מַ֗ר	it was said
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person masculine singular Root: אָמַר Sense: to say, speak, utter.
הֹ֣רָה	is conceived
Parse: Verb, QalPass, Perfect, third person masculine singular Root: הָרֶה Sense: pregnant.
גָֽבֶר	a male child
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: גֶּבֶר Sense: man, strong man, warrior (emphasising strength or ability to fight).

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