Job Chapter 3 Back Next{3:1} After this
Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
{3:2} Job answered:
{3:3} "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'
{3:4} Let that day be
darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
{3:5} Let darkness and the shadow of
death claim it for their own. Let a
cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.
{3:6} As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
{3:7} Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
{3:8} Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up
leviathan.
{3:9} Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
{3:10} because it didn't shut up the
doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
{3:11} "Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
{3:12} Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
{3:13} For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
{3:14} with kings and
counselors of the
earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
{3:15} or with princes who had
gold, who filled their houses with silver:
{3:16} or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as
infants who never saw light.
{3:17} There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
{3:18} There the prisoners are at ease together. They don't hear the voice of the taskmaster.
{3:19} The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
{3:20} "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the
bitter in soul,
{3:21} Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
{3:22} who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the
grave?
{3:23} Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
{3:24} For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
{3:25} For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.
{3:26} I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."
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