Job 3
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Job Laments His Birth
1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. 2Job said:
3“Let the day perish in which I was born # Job 10:18–19; Jer 20:14–18
and the night in which it was said, ‘A male child is conceived.’
4As for that day, let it be darkness;
let God above not regard it;
and let not light shine upon it.
5Let darkness and the shadow of death # Job 10:21–22; Ps 23:4 claim it;
let a cloud settle on it;
let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6As for that night, let darkness capture it;
let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
let it not come into the number of the months.
7Yes, as for that night, let it be barren!
Let no joyful cry come into it!
8Let them curse it who curse any day,
those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan. # Job 41:1, 10; Ps 74:14; Isa 27:1
9Let its morning stars be dark;
let it look for light, but have none;
let it not see the rays of dawn, # Job 41:18
10because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,
nor hide trouble from my eyes.
11“Why did I not die at birth?
Why did I not expire when I came out of the womb?
12Why did her knees receive me? # Ge 30:3
And why her breasts that I should nurse? # Isa 66:12
13For now I would be lying down and would be at peace;
I would have slept; then there would be rest for me,
14with kings and counselors of the earth,
who built ruins for themselves, # Job 15:28
15or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver.
16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, # 1Co 15:8
like infants who never saw light? # Ps 58:8
17There the wicked will have stopped causing trouble,
and there the exhausted will rest. # Job 17:16
18Captives will relax together;
they do not hear the voice of the oppressor. # Job 39:7
19The small and great, they are there,
and the servant is free from his master.
20“Why is light given to the miserable,
and life unto the bitter in soul, # Job 7:15–16; Jer 20:18
21who look for death, but it is not there; # Rev 9:6
and they search for it more than for hidden treasures; # Pr 2:4
22who rejoice exceedingly,
and they are glad when they find the grave?
23And why is light given to a man
whose way is hidden, # Isa 40:27
whom God has hedged in? # Job 19:8; La 3:7
24For my sighing comes before I eat,
and my groaning pours forth # Ps 38:8; 80:5 like the waters.
25For the thing which I greatly feared has happened to me,
and that which I dreaded has come to me.
26I am not at peace; I have no quiet,
I cannot rest, and turmoil has come.”
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