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Job 3

Third Millennium Bible TMB

1 After this opened Job his mouth and cursed his day.

2 And Job spoke and said:

3 "Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, `There is a manchild conceived.'

4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

7 Lo, let that night be solitary; let no joyful voice come therein.

8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day,

10 because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

11 "Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

12 Why did the knees precede me, or why the breasts that I should suck?

13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept; then would I have been at rest

14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves,

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

16 or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have been, as infants who never saw light.

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

18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

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

20 "Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul,

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

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

23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came."

GOD'S WORD Translation GW

1 After all this, Job [finally] opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.

2 Job said,

3 "Scratch out the day I was born and the night that said, 'A boy has been conceived!'

4 "That day-- let it be pitch-black. Let God above not [even] care about it. Let no light shine on it.

5 Let the darkness and long shadows claim it as their own. Let a dark cloud hang over it. Let the gloom terrify it.

6 "That night-- let the blackness take it away. Let it not be included in the days of the year or be numbered among the months.

7 Let that night be empty. Let no joyful singing be heard in it.

8 Let those who curse the day (those who know how to wake up Leviathan ) curse that night.

9 Let its stars turn dark before dawn. Let it hope for light and receive none. Let it not see the first light of dawn

10 because it did not shut the doors of the womb [from which I came] or hide my eyes from trouble.

11 "Why didn't I die as soon as I was born and breathe my last breath when I came out of the womb?

12 Why did knees welcome me? Why did breasts let me nurse?

13 Instead of being alive, I would now be quietly lying down. I would now be sleeping peacefully.

14 I would be with the kings and the counselors of the world who built for themselves [what are now] ruins.

15 I would be with princes who had gold, who filled their homes with silver.

16 I would be buried like a stillborn baby. I would not exist. I would be like infants who never saw the light.

17 There the wicked stop their raging. There the weary are able to rest.

18 There the captives have no troubles at all. There they do not hear the shouting of the slave driver.

19 There [you find] both the unimportant and important people. There the slave is free from his master.

20 "Why give light to one in misery and life to those who find it so bitter,

21 to those who long for death but it never comes-- though they dig for it more than for buried treasure?

22 They are ecstatic, delighted to find the grave.

23 Why give light to those whose paths have been hidden, to those whom God has fenced in?

24 "When my food is in front of me, I sigh. I pour out my groaning like water.

25 What I fear most overtakes me. What I dread happens to me.

26 I have no peace! I have no quiet! I have no rest! And trouble keeps coming!"