Job 3
3
Job Bewails His Birth
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Jer 20.14-18. After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2And Job spake, and said,
3Let the day perish wherein I was born,
and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4Let that day be darkness;
let not God regard it from above,
neither let the light shine upon it.
5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it;
let a cloud dwell upon it;
let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 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.
7Lo, let that night be solitary;
let no joyful voice come therein.
8Let them curse it that curse the day,
who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark;
let it look for light, but have none;
neither let it see the dawning of the day:
10because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb,
nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11Why died I not from the womb?
Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12Why did the knees prevent me?
Or why the breasts that I should suck?
13For now should I have lain still and been quiet,
I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14with kings and counselors of the earth,
which built desolate places for themselves;
15or with princes that had gold,
who filled their houses with silver:
16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been;
as infants which never saw light.
17There the wicked cease from troubling;
and there the weary be at rest.
18 There the prisoners rest together;
they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19The small and great are there;
and the servant is free from his master.
20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,
and life unto the bitter in soul;
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Rev 9.6. which long for death, but it cometh not;
and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad,
when they can find the grave?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid,
and whom God hath hedged in?
24For my sighing cometh before I eat,
and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me,
and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
26I was not in safety, neither had I rest,
neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
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King James Version 1611, spelling, punctuation and text formatting modernized by ABS in 1962; typesetting © 2010 American Bible Society.
Job 3
3
Job Curses His Birth
1After seven days Job cried out and cursed the day he had been born, 2saying:
3“Let the day I was born be destroyed,
and the night it was said, ‘A boy is born!’
4Let that day turn to darkness.
Don’t let God care about it.
Don’t let light shine on it.
5Let darkness and gloom have that day.
Let a cloud hide it.
Let thick darkness cover its light.
6Let thick darkness capture that night.
Don’t count it among the days of the year
or put it in any of the months.
7Let that night be empty,
with no shout of joy to be heard.
8Let those who curse days curse that day.
Let them prepare to wake up the sea monster Leviathan.
9Let that day’s morning stars never appear;
let it wait for daylight that never comes.
Don’t let it see the first light of dawn,
10because it allowed me to be born
and did not hide trouble from my eyes.
11“Why didn’t I die as soon as I was born?
Why didn’t I die when I came out of the womb?
12Why did my mother’s knees receive me,
and my mother’s breasts feed me?
13If they had not been there,
I would be lying dead in peace;
I would be asleep and at rest
14with kings and wise men of the earth
who built places for themselves that are now ruined.
15I would be asleep with rulers
who filled their houses with gold and silver.
16Why was I not buried like a child born dead,
like a baby who never saw the light of day?
17In the grave the wicked stop making trouble,
and the weary workers are at rest.
18In the grave there is rest for the captives
who no longer hear the shout of the slave driver.
19People great and small are in the grave,
and the slave is freed from his master.
20“Why is light given to those in misery?
Why is life given to those who are so unhappy?
21They want to die, but death does not come.
They search for death more than for hidden treasure.
22They are very happy
when they get to the grave.
23They cannot see where they are going.
God has hidden the road ahead.
24I make sad sounds as I eat;
my groans pour out like water.
25Everything I feared and dreaded
has happened to me.
26I have no peace or quietness.
I have no rest, only trouble.”
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