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# Job 3

Job 3 is chapter 3 of 42 in the Book of Job. Here are all 26 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Job expresses his sense of the miseries of man's life, by cursing the day of his birth.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Job 3 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day,
2. and this is what he said:
3. May the day perish on which I was born, and the night, in which it was said, “A man has been conceived.”
4. May that day be turned into darkness, may God not seek it from above, and may light not illuminate it.
5. Let darkness and the shadow of death obscure it, let a fog overtake it, and let it be enveloped in bitterness.
6. Let a whirlwind of darkness take hold of that night, let it not be counted in the days of the year, nor numbered in the months.
7. May that night be alone and unworthy of praise.
8. May they curse it, who curse the day, who are prepared to awaken a leviathan.
9. Let the stars be concealed with its darkness. Let it expect light, and not see it, nor the rising of the dawn in the East.
10. For it did not close the doors of the womb that bore me, nor take away evils from my eyes.
11. Why did I not die in the womb? Having left the womb, why did I not immediately perish?
12. Why was I received upon the knees? Why was I suckled at the breasts?
13. For by now, I should have been sleeping silently, and taking rest in my sleep
14. with the kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes,
15. either with princes, who possess gold and fill their houses with silver,
16. or, like a hidden miscarriage, I should not have continued, just like those who, being conceived, have not seen the light.
17. There the impious cease from rebellion, and there the wearied in strength take rest.
18. And at such times, having been bound together without difficulty, they have not heard the voice of the bailiff.
19. The small and great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
20. Why is light given to the miserable, and life to those who are in bitterness of soul,
21. who expect death, and it does not arrive, like those who dig for treasure
22. and who rejoice greatly when they have found the grave,
23. to a man whose way is hidden and whom God has surrounded with darkness?
24. Before I eat, I sigh; and like overflowing waters, so is my howl,
25. for the terror that I feared has happened to me, and so has the dread befallen me.
26. Have I not remained hidden? Have I not kept silence? Have I not remained calm? Yet indignation has overcome me.

## Job 3 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Post hæc aperuit Job os suum, et maledixit diei suo,
2. et locutus est:
3. Pereat dies in qua natus sum, et nox in qua dictum est: Conceptus est homo.
4. Dies ille vertatur in tenebras: non requirat eum Deus desuper, et non illustretur lumine.
5. Obscurent eum tenebræ et umbra mortis; occupet eum caligo, et involvatur amaritudine.
6. Noctem illam tenebrosus turbo possideat; non computetur in diebus anni, nec numeretur in mensibus.
7. Sit nox illa solitaria, nec laude digna.
8. Maledicant ei qui maledicunt diei, qui parati sunt suscitare Leviathan.
9. Obtenebrentur stellæ caligine ejus; expectet lucem, et non videat, nec ortum surgentis auroræ.
10. Quia non conclusit ostia ventris qui portavit me, nec abstulit mala ab oculis meis.
11. Quare non in vulva mortuus sum? egressus ex utero non statim perii?
12. Quare exceptus genibus? cur lactatus uberibus?
13. Nunc enim dormiens silerem, et somno meo requiescerem
14. cum regibus et consulibus terræ, qui ædificant sibi solitudines;
15. aut cum principibus qui possident aurum, et replent domos suas argento;
16. aut sicut abortivum absconditum non subsisterem, vel qui concepti non viderunt lucem.
17. Ibi impii cessaverunt a tumultu, et ibi requieverunt fessi robore.
18. Et quondam vincti pariter sine molestia, non audierunt vocem exactoris.
19. Parvus et magnus ibi sunt, et servus liber a domino suo.
20. Quare misero data est lux, et vita his qui in amaritudine animæ sunt:
21. qui expectant mortem, et non venit, quasi effodientes thesaurum;
22. gaudentque vehementer cum invenerint sepulchrum?
23. viro cujus abscondita est via et circumdedit eum Deus tenebris?
24. Antequam comedam, suspiro; et tamquam inundantes aquæ, sic rugitus meus:
25. quia timor quem timebam evenit mihi, et quod verebar accidit.
26. Nonne dissimulavi? nonne silui? nonne quievi? et venit super me indignatio.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 1: “Cursed his day” … Job cursed the day of his birth, not by way of wishing evil to any thing of God's creation; but only to express in a stronger manner his sense of human miseries in general, and of his own calamities in particular.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Tue, Oct 3, 2028 (computed): Tuesday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Job 3:1-3, 11-17, 20-23

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).