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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.

Good News Translation GNT

1 Finally Job broke the silence and cursed the day on which he had been born.

2 O God, put a curse on the day I was born; 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.

12 Why did my mother hold me on her knees? Why did she feed me at her breast?

13 If I had died then, I would be at rest now,

14 sleeping like the kings and rulers who rebuilt ancient palaces.

15 Then I would be sleeping like princes who filled their houses with gold and silver,

16 or sleeping like a stillborn child.

17 In the grave wicked people stop their evil, and tired workers find rest at last.

18 Even prisoners enjoy peace, free from shouts and harsh commands.

19 Everyone is there, the famous and the unknown, and slaves at last are free.

20 Why let people go on living in misery? Why give light to those in grief?

21 They wait for death, but it never comes; they prefer a grave to any treasure.

22 They are not happy till they are dead and buried;

23 God keeps their future hidden and hems them in on every side.

24 Instead of eating, I mourn, and I can never stop groaning.

25 Everything I fear and dread comes true.

26 I have no peace, no rest, and my troubles never end.