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Job 3

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Job 3:1WEB

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.

Job 3:2WEB

Job answered:

Job 3:3WEB

“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

Job 3:4WEB

Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

Job 3:5WEB

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.

Job 3:6WEB

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.

Job 3:7WEB

Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

Job 3:8WEB

Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

Job 3:9WEB

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,

Job 3:10WEB

because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

Job 3:11WEB

“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Job 3:12WEB

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

Job 3:13WEB

For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

Job 3:14WEB

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

Job 3:15WEB

or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;

Job 3:16WEB

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

Job 3:17WEB

There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

Job 3:18WEB

There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.

Job 3:19WEB

The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

Job 3:20WEB

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Job 3:21WEB

who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

Job 3:22WEB

who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Job 3:23WEB

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

Job 3:24WEB

For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

Job 3:25WEB

For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.

Job 3:26WEB

I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”

Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.