Job3
Job Regrets His Birth
1⸤Afterward⸥ Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.2Thus Job ⸤spoke up⸥ and said,3“Let the day perish on which I was born,and the night that said, ‘A man-child is conceived.’4Let that day become darkness;may God not seek it from above,nor may daylight shine on it.5Let darkness and deep shadow claim it;let clouds settle on it;let them terrify it with the blackness of day.6Let darkness seize that night; let it not rejoice among the days of the year;let it not enter among the number of the months.7Look, let that night become barren;let a joyful song not enter it.8Let those who curse the day curse it,those who are skilled at rousing Leviathan.9Let the stars of its dawn be dark;let it hope for light but there be none,and let it not see the eyelids of dawn10because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.Job Wishes He Had Died
11“Why did I not die at birth?Why did I not come forth from the womb and expire?12Why did the knees receive meand the breasts, that I could suck?13For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace;I would be asleep; then ⸤I would be at rest⸥ 14with kings and counselors of the earth,who ⸤rebuild⸥ ruins for themselves,15or with high officials ⸤who have gold⸥, who fill up their houses with silver.16Or why was I not hidden like a miscarriage,like infants who did not see the light?17There the wicked cease from troubling,and there the ⸤weary⸥ are at rest;18the prisoners are at ease together;they do not hear the oppressor’s voice.19The small and the great are there,and the slave is free from his masters.Job Wishes He Might Die
20“Why does he give light to one in miseryand life to those bitter of soul,21who wait for death, but ⸤it does not come⸥, and search for it more than for treasures,22who rejoice ⸤exceedingly⸥, and they are glad when they find the grave?23Why does he3:23 Most likely God give light to a man whose way is hidden,and God has fenced him in all around?24For my sighing comes ⸤before⸥ my bread, and my groanings gush forth like water25because the dread that I ⸤feel⸥ has come upon me,and what I feared befalls me.26I am not at ease, and I am not at peace,and I do not have rest, thus turmoil has come.”Logos Bible Software