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Job 3

Job’s Lament

¹Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. ²And Job said,

³“May the day on which I was to be born perish, As well as the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’

⁴“May that day be darkness; May God above not care for it, Nor light shine on it.

⁵“May darkness and black gloom claim it; May a cloud settle on it; May the blackness of the day terrify it.

⁶“As for that night, may darkness seize it; May it not rejoice among the days of the year; May it not come into the number of the months.

⁷“Behold, may that night be barren; May no joyful shout enter it.

⁸“May those curse it who curse the day, Who are prepared to disturb Leviathan.

⁹“May the stars of its twilight be darkened; May it wait for light but have none, And may it not see the breaking dawn;

¹⁰Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb, Or hide trouble from my eyes.

¹¹¶“Why did I not die at birth, Come out of the womb and pass away?

¹²“Why were the knees there in front of me, And why the breasts, that I would nurse?

¹³“For now 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 rebuilt ruins for themselves;

¹⁵Or with rulers who had gold, Who were filling their houses with silver.

¹⁶“Or like a miscarriage which is hidden, I would not exist, As infants that never saw light.

¹⁷“There the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary are at rest.

¹⁸“The prisoners are at ease together; They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.

¹⁹“The small and the great are there, And the slave is free from his master.

²⁰¶“Why is light given to one burdened with grief, And life to the bitter of soul,

²¹Who long for death, but there is none, And dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

²²Who are filled with jubilation, And rejoice when they find the grave?

²³“Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has shut off?

²⁴“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries pour out like water.

²⁵“For what I fear comes upon me, And what I dread encounters me.

²⁶“I am not at ease, nor am I quiet, And I am not at rest, but turmoil comes.”

Job 3 (NASB)

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Job

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