Job Chapter 3 (NKJV)
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1. After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. | |
2. And Job spoke, and said | |
3. May the day perish on which I was born, And the night in which it was said, 'A male child is conceived.' | |
4. May that day be darkness; May God above not seek it, Nor the light shine upon it. | |
5. May darkness and the shadow of death claim it; May a cloud settle on it; May the blackness of the day terrify it. | |
6. As for that night, may darkness seize it; May it not rejoice among the days of the year, May it not come into the number of the months. | |
7. Oh, may that night be barren! May no joyful shout come into it! | |
8. May those curse it who curse the day, Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan. | |
9. May the stars of its morning be dark; May it look for light, but have none, And not see the dawning of the day; | |
10. Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother's womb, Nor hide sorrow from my eyes. | |
11. Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not perish when I came from the womb? | |
12. Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse? | |
13. For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have been asleep; Then I would have been at rest | |
14. With kings and counselors of the earth, Who built ruins for themselves, | |
15. Or with princes who had gold, Who filled their houses with silver; | |
16. Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, Like infants who never saw light? | |
17. There the wicked cease from troubling, And there the weary are at rest. | |
18. There the prisoners rest together; They do not hear 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 who is in misery, And life to the bitter of soul, | |
21. Who long for death, but it does not come, And search for it more than 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 hidden, And whom God has hedged in? | |
24. For my sighing comes before I eat, And my groanings pour out like water. | |
25. For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me, And what I dreaded has happened to me. | |
26. I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, for trouble comes." |
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