Job Chapter 3
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Job 3:1 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
Job 3:2 And Job said:
Job 3:3 “Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man is conceived.’
Job 3:4 Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it.
Job 3:5 Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Job 3:6 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.
Job 3:7 Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry enter it.
Job 3:8 Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan.
Job 3:9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning,
Job 3:10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes.
Job 3:11 “Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire?
Job 3:12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
Job 3:13 For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,
Job 3:14 with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,
Job 3:15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
Job 3:16 Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light?
Job 3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest.
Job 3:18 There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.
Job 3:19 The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
Job 3:20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Job 3:21 who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
Job 3:22 who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?
Job 3:23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?