Job 3
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- 1After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
- 2Job spoke and said:
- 3"Let the day I was born perish, and the night in which it was said, 'A man child has been conceived.'
- 4Let that day be darkness. Let God above not regard it, and let no light shine upon it.
- 5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it. Let a cloud dwell upon it, and let the blackness of the day terrify it.
- 6As for that night — let darkness seize it. Let it not be joined to 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 into it.
- 8Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are ready to raise up their mourning.
- 9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light but have none, and let it not see the dawning of the day —
- 10because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb or hide sorrow from my eyes.
- 11Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not pass away when I came out of the womb?
- 12Why did the knees welcome me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck?
- 13For now I would have lain still and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,
- 14with kings and counselors of the earth who built desolate places for themselves,
- 15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
- 16Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have been, like infants who never saw the light.
- 17There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
- 18There the prisoners rest together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
- 19The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.
- 20Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
- 21who long for death, but it does not come, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
- 22who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave?
- 23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
- 24For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
- 25For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and that which I was afraid of has come to me.
- 26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came."