Job 3:1-11

1 Finally Job broke the silence and cursed the day on which he had been born. 1
2 O God, put a curse on the day I was born; 2 put a curse on the night when I was conceived!
4 Turn that day into darkness, God. Never again remember that day; never again let light shine on it.
5 Make it a day of gloom and thick darkness; cover it with clouds, and blot out the sun.
6 Blot that night out of the year, and never let it be counted again;
7 make it a barren, joyless night.
8 Tell the sorcerers to curse that day, those who know how to control Leviathan.
9 Keep the morning star from shining; give that night no hope of dawn.
10 Curse that night for letting me be born, for exposing me to trouble and grief.
11 I wish I had died in my mother's womb or died the moment I was born.

Cross References 2

  • 1. 3.1-19Jeremiah 20.14-18.
  • 2. +23.3Ben Sira 23.14.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. leviathan: [Some take this to be the crocodile, others a legendary monster. Magicians were thought to be able to make him cause eclipses of the sun.]
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.