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Job 3

The Message Bible MSG

1 Then Job broke the silence. He spoke up and cursed his fate:

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3 "Obliterate the day I was born. Blank out the night I was conceived!

4 Let it be a black hole in space. May God above forget it ever happened. Erase it from the books!

5 May the day of my birth be buried in deep darkness, shrouded by the fog, swallowed by the night.

6 And the night of my conception - the devil take it! Rip the date off the calendar, delete it from the almanac.

7 Oh, turn that night into pure nothingness - no sounds of pleasure from that night, ever!

8 May those who are good at cursing curse that day. Unleash the sea beast, Leviathan, on it.

9 May its morning stars turn to black cinders, waiting for a daylight that never comes, never once seeing the first light of dawn.

10 And why? Because it released me from my mother's womb into a life with so much trouble.

11 "Why didn't I die at birth, my first breath out of the womb my last?

12 Why were there arms to rock me, and breasts for me to drink from?

13 I could be resting in peace right now, asleep forever, feeling no pain,

14 In the company of kings and statesmen in their royal ruins,

15 Or with princes resplendent in their gold and silver tombs.

16 Why wasn't I stillborn and buried with all the babies who never saw light,

17 Where the wicked no longer trouble anyone and bone-weary people get a long-deserved rest?

18 Prisoners sleep undisturbed, never again to wake up to the bark of the guards.

19 The small and the great are equals in that place, and slaves are free from their masters.

20 "Why does God bother giving light to the miserable, why bother keeping bitter people alive,

21 Those who want in the worst way to die, and can't, who can't imagine anything better than death,

22 Who count the day of their death and burial the happiest day of their life?

23 What's the point of life when it doesn't make sense, when God blocks all the roads to meaning?

24 "Instead of bread I get groans for my supper, then leave the table and vomit my anguish.

25 The worst of my fears has come true, what I've dreaded most has happened.

26 My repose is shattered, my peace destroyed. No rest for me, ever - death has invaded life."

English Standard Version ESV

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

2 And Job said:

3 “Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived. ’

4 Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.

5 Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

6 That night—let thick darkness seize it! Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

7 Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry enter it.

8 Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.

9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning,

10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.

11 “Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?

12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?

13 For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,

14 with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,

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

16 Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?

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

18 There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not 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 him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,

21 who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

22 who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?

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

24 For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.

25 For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me.

26 I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes. ”