Job 3
3
Job Laments His Birth
1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. 2Job said:
3#Job 10:18–19; Jer 20:14–18 “Let the day perish in which I was born
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.
5#Job 10:21–22; Ps 23:4 Let darkness and the shadow of death 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!
8#Job 41:1; 41:10 Let them curse it who curse any day,
those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
9#Job 41:18 Let its morning stars be dark;
let it look for light, but have none;
let it not see the rays of dawn,
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?
12#Ge 30:3; Isa 66:12 Why did her knees receive me?
And why her breasts that I should nurse?
13For now I would be lying down and would be at peace;
I would have slept; then there would be rest for me,
14#Job 15:28 with kings and counselors of the earth,
who built ruins for themselves,
15or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver.
16#Ps 58:8; 1Co 15:8 Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child,
like infants who never saw light?
17#Job 17:16 There the wicked will have stopped causing trouble,
and there the exhausted will rest.
18#Job 39:7 Captives will relax together;
they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
19The small and great, they are there,
and the servant is free from his master.
20#Job 7:15–16; Jer 20:18 “Why is light given to the miserable,
and life unto the bitter in soul,
21#Pr 2:4; Rev 9:6 who look for death, but it is not there;
and they search for it more than for hidden treasures;
22who rejoice exceedingly,
and they are glad when they find the grave?
23#Job 19:8; La 3:7; Isa 40:27 And why is light given to a man
whose way is hidden,
whom God has hedged in?
24#Ps 38:8; 80:5 For my sighing comes before I eat,
and my groaning pours forth 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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Job 3
3
Job Laments His Birth
1After this Job #ch. 33:2; Ps. 78:2opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2And Job said:
3 # [ch. 10:18, 19]; See Jer. 20:14-18 “Let the day perish on which I was born,
and the night that said,
‘A man is conceived.’
4Let that day be darkness!
May God above not seek it,
nor light shine upon it.
5Let gloom and #ch. 10:21, 22; 12:22; 24:17; 28:3; 34:22; 38:17; Ps. 23:4; Isa. 9:2; Matt. 4:16deep darkness claim it.
Let clouds dwell upon it;
let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6That night—let thick darkness seize it!
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
let it not come into the number of the months.
7Behold, let that night be barren;
let no joyful cry enter it.
8Let those curse it who curse the day,
who are ready to rouse up #ch. 41:1Leviathan.
9Let the stars of its dawn be dark;
let it hope for light, but have none,
nor see #ch. 41:18the eyelids of the morning,
10because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,
nor hide trouble from my eyes.
11“Why #ch. 10:18, 19did I not die at birth,
come out from the womb and expire?
12Why did #Gen. 30:3; 50:23; Isa. 66:12the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
13For then I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,
14with kings and counselors of the earth
who #[Isa. 58:12]rebuilt ruins for themselves,
15or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver.
16Or why was I not as a hidden #Ps. 58:8; Eccles. 6:3; [1 Cor. 15:8]stillborn child,
as infants who never see the light?
17There the wicked cease from troubling,
and there the weary are at #ch. 17:16rest.
18There the prisoners are at ease together;
they hear not the voice of #Ex. 3:7the taskmaster.
19The small and the great are there,
and the slave is free from his master.
20“Why is light given to him who is in misery,
and life to #Prov. 31:6the bitter in soul,
21who #Rev. 9:6 long for death, but it comes not,
and dig for it more than for #Prov. 2:4hidden treasures,
22who rejoice exceedingly
and are glad when they find the grave?
23Why is light given to a man whose #Isa. 40:27 way is hidden,
whom God has #[ch. 1:10]; See ch. 19:8hedged in?
24For my sighing comes #[Ps. 42:3; 80:5; 102:9] instead of#3:24 Or like; Hebrew before my bread,
and my #Ps. 22:1; 38:8groanings are poured out like water.
25 # [Prov. 10:24] For the thing that I fear comes upon me,
and what I dread befalls me.
26I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;
I have no rest, but trouble comes.”
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