Job 3:3

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

Cross-references

Job 3:1 Historical context

Job 3:1 sets the scene: 'Job cursed the day of his birth' — it introduces the very curse spoken in verse 3.

Job 10:18 Parallel

In Job 10:18, Job similarly laments being brought from the womb, wishing he had died unseen — a parallel lament to his birth-day curse.

Job 10:19 Parallel

Job 10:19 continues the wish to have been carried from womb to grave — reinforcing the same desire to have never existed.

Jeremiah 15:10 echoes Job's cry, 'Woe to me, my mother, that you bore me!' — a parallel curse on one's birth.

Jeremiah 20:14 nearly quotes Job, 'Cursed be the day I was born!' — a direct parallel showing shared lament.

Jeremiah 20:15 Related theme

Jeremiah 20:15 extends the curse to the messenger who announced a son's birth — expanding on the same birth-day theme.