Job 3:2-4
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
2 Job spoke out and said:
3 Perish the day on which I was born,(A)
the night when they said, “The child is a boy!”
4 May that day be darkness:
may God[a] above not care for it,
may light not shine upon it!
Footnotes
- 3:4 God: in Heb. ’Eloah, another name for the divinity, used frequently in Job.
Job 3:2-4
New International Version
2 He said:
3 “May the day of my birth perish,
and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’(A)
4 That day—may it turn to darkness;
may God above not care about it;
may no light shine on it.
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