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Job 3

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,

2 Job made answer and said,

3 Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.

4 That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

5 Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

6 That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

7 As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;

8 Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.

9 Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

10 Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

11 Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

12 Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?

13 For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,

14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

15 Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;

16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

17 There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

18 There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.

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

20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

21 To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

22 Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;

23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

25 For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

26 I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.

New International Version NIV

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

2 He said:

3 “May the day of my birth perish, and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’

4 That day—may it turn to darkness; may God above not care about it; may no light shine on it.

5 May gloom and utter darkness claim it once more; may a cloud settle over it; may blackness overwhelm it.

6 That night—may thick darkness seize it; may it not be included among the days of the year nor be entered in any of the months.

7 May that night be barren; may no shout of joy be heard in it.

8 May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.

9 May its morning stars become dark; may it wait for daylight in vain and not see the first rays of dawn,

10 for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.

11 “Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?

12 Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?

13 For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

14 with kings and rulers of the earth, who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,

15 with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

16 Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?

17 There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

18 Captives also enjoy their ease; they no longer hear the slave driver’s shout.

19 The small and the great are there, and the slaves are freed from their owners.

20 “Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter of soul,

21 to those who long for death that does not come, who search for it more than for hidden treasure,

22 who are filled with gladness and rejoice when they reach the grave?

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

24 For sighing has become my daily food; my groans pour out like water.

25 What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me.

26 I have no peace, no quietness; I have no rest, but only turmoil.”