Job 3:7-17

7 sit nox illa solitaria nec laude digna

8 maledicant ei qui maledicunt diei qui parati sunt suscitare Leviathan

9 obtenebrentur stellae caligine eius expectet lucem et non videat nec ortum surgentis aurorae

10 quia non conclusit ostia ventris qui portavit me nec abstulit mala ab oculis meis

11 quare non in vulva mortuus sum egressus ex utero non statim perii

12 quare exceptus genibus cur lactatus uberibus

13 nunc enim dormiens silerem et somno meo requiescerem

14 cum regibus et consulibus terrae qui aedificant sibi solitudines

15 aut cum principibus qui possident aurum et replent domos suas argento

16 aut sicut abortivum absconditum non subsisterem vel qui concepti non viderunt lucem

17 ibi impii cessaverunt a tumultu et ibi requieverunt fessi robore

Job 3:7-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 3

In this chapter we have an account of Job's cursing the day of his birth, and the night of his conception; Job 3:1-3; first the day, to which he wishes the most extreme darkness, Job 3:4,5; then the night, to which he wishes the same and that it might be destitute of all joy, and be cursed by others as well as by himself, Job 3:6-9; The reasons follow, because it did not prevent his coming into the world, and because he died not on it, Job 3:10-12; which would, as he judged, have been an happiness to him; and this he illustrates by the still and quiet state of the dead, the company they are with, and their freedom from all trouble, oppression, and bondage, Job 3:13-19; but however, since it was otherwise with him, he desires his life might not be prolonged, and expostulates about the continuance of it, Job 3:20-23; and this by reason of his present troubles, which were many and great, and came upon him as he feared they would, and which had made him uneasy in his prosperity, Job 3:24-26.