American Standard Version (ASV):
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.
King James Version (KJV):
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
American Standard Version (ASV):
As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it: Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.
King James Version (KJV):
As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
American Standard Version (ASV):
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
King James Version (KJV):
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
American Standard Version (ASV):
And Job answered and said:
King James Version (KJV):
And Job spake, and said,
American Standard Version (ASV):
Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.
King James Version (KJV):
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to bemoan him and to comfort him.
King James Version (KJV):
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
American Standard Version (ASV):
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
King James Version (KJV):
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
American Standard Version (ASV):
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.
King James Version (KJV):
So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that [his] grief was very great.
American Standard Version (ASV):
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.
King James Version (KJV):
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? renounce God, and die.
King James Version (KJV):
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.