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Job 3

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1 {Afterward} Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
2 Thus Job {spoke up} and said,
2 He said:
3 "Let [the] day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man-child is conceived.'
3 “May the day of my birth perish, and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’
4 Let that day become darkness; may God not seek it from above, nor may daylight shine on it.
4 That day—may it turn to darkness; may God above not care about it; may no light shine on it.
5 Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let clouds settle on it; let them terrify it [with the] blackness of day.
5 May gloom and utter darkness claim it once more; may a cloud settle over it; may blackness overwhelm it.
6 Let darkness seize that night; let it not rejoice among [the] days of [the] year; let it not enter among [the] number of [the] months.
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 Look, let that night become barren; let a joyful song not enter it.
7 May that night be barren; may no shout of joy be heard in it.
8 Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled at rousing Leviathan.
8 May those who curse days curse that day, those who are ready to rouse Leviathan.
9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but there be none, and let it not see [the] eyelids of dawn
9 May its morning stars become dark; may it wait for daylight in vain and not see the first rays of dawn,
10 because it did not shut the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
10 for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.
11 "Why did I not die at birth? [Why] did I [not] come forth from [the] womb and expire?
11 “Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?
12 Why did [the] knees receive me and the breasts, that I could suck?
12 Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?
13 For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace; I would be asleep; then {I would be at rest}
13 For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
14 with kings and counselors of [the] earth, who {rebuild} ruins for themselves,
14 with kings and rulers of the earth, who built for themselves places now lying in ruins,
15 or with high officials {who have gold}, who fill up their houses [with] silver.
15 with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
16 Or [why] was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants [who] did not see [the] light?
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 troubling, and there [the] {weary} are at rest;
17 There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.
18 [the] prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear [the] oppressor's voice.
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] slave [is] free from his masters.
19 The small and the great are there, and the slaves are freed from their owners.
20 "Why does he give light to one in misery and life to [those] bitter of soul,
20 “Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter of soul,
21 who wait for death, but {it does not come}, and search [for] it more than [for] treasures,
21 to those who long for death that does not come, who search for it more than for hidden treasure,
22 who rejoice {exceedingly}, [and] they are glad when they find [the] grave?
22 who are filled with gladness and rejoice when they reach the grave?
23 [Why does he give light] to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in [all] around?
23 Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
24 For my sighing comes {before} my bread, and my groanings gush forth like water
24 For sighing has become my daily food; my groans pour out like water.
25 because the dread that I {feel} has come upon me, and what I feared befalls me.
25 What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me.
26 I am not at ease, and I am not at peace, and I do not have rest, thus turmoil has come."
26 I have no peace, no quietness; I have no rest, but only turmoil.”
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