Comprehensive Job 3 Quiz With Answers: A Cry from the Depths

Answer: C — Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
KJV Reference: Job 3:1 — “After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.”

Answer: D — Job cursed the day he was born, wishing it had never existed.
KJV Reference: Job 3:3 — “Let the day perish wherein I was born…”

Answer: B — Job wished for darkness and the absence of light upon that day.
KJV Reference: Job 3:9 — “Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none…”

Answer: B — Job said he would have been at rest in death.
KJV Reference: Job 3:13 — “For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest…”

Answer: D — He describes it as a place where even prisoners find relief.
KJV Reference: Job 3:18 — “There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.”

Answer: C — Job said kings and counselors of the earth lie at rest in death.
KJV Reference: Job 3:14 — “With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves…”

Answer: B — He wished he had been “as an hidden untimely birth.”
KJV Reference: Job 3:16 — “Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.”

Answer: A — Job wonders why life continues for those who long for death in vain.
KJV Reference: Job 3:21 — “Which long for death, but it cometh not…”

Answer: C — He compares it to finding hidden treasure.
KJV Reference: Job 3:21 — “…and dig for it more than for hid treasures…”

Answer: D — Job acknowledges that what he feared most has now become his reality.
KJV Reference: Job 3:25 — “For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me…”

Answer: B — Job ends his lament with a tone of bitterness and sorrow.
KJV Reference: Job 3:26 — “I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.”

Answer: B — He describes a state of unrest even before calamity struck.
KJV Reference: Job 3:26 — “I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet…”

Answer: B — Job continually wrestles with the very fact of his existence.
KJV Reference: Job 3:11 — “Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?”

Answer: C — Job mentions kings, counselors, and princes who are now at rest.
KJV Reference: Job 3:14–15 — “With kings and counsellors of the earth… Or with princes that had gold…”

Answer: B — Job expresses a deep wish that he had perished at birth.
KJV Reference: Job 3:11 — “Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost…”

Answer: B — Job refers to those who are bitter in soul, longing for death.
KJV Reference: Job 3:20 — “Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul…”

Answer: B — He says they rejoice exceedingly when they find the grave.
KJV Reference: Job 3:22 — “Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?”

Answer: B — Job’s entire lament wrestles with why suffering comes upon someone righteous.
KJV Reference: Implicit throughout Job 3 — Job mourns deeply, questioning the value of life itself.

Answer: C — Job’s words are rich in poetic structure and filled with sorrowful imagery.
KJV Reference: Job 3 (entire chapter) — Recognized as one of the earliest biblical lament poems.

Answer: D — Job 3 is saturated with expressions of despair, anguish, and spiritual confusion.
KJV Reference: Job 3 (entire chapter) — The dominant emotional tone is one of lament and hopelessness.