| 3 | Job | ||
| 1 | After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. | Job's complaint to the LORD. Jb.3.1-26 | |
| 2 | And Job said: | ||
| 3 | "Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which said, 'A man-child 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 | Yea, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry be heard in it. | ||
| 8 | Let those curse it who curse the day, who are skilled 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 forth from the womb and expire? | ||
| 12 | Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should suck? | ||
| 13 | For then I should have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then I should 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 untimely birth, as infants that 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 that 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 hid treasures; | ||
| 22 | who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they find the grave? | ||
| 23 | Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in? | ||
| 24 | For my sighing comes as 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." | ||
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