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Job 3

Jewish Publication Society 1917 · Berean Standard Bible

3:1

After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

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3:2

And Job spoke, and said:

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3:3

Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night wherein it was said: ‘A man-child is brought forth.’

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3:4

Let that day be darkness; Let not God inquire after it from above, Neither let the light shine upon it.

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3:5

Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own; Let a cloud dwell upon it; Let all that maketh black the day terrify it.

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3:6

As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it; Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.

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3:7

Lo, let that night be desolate; Let no joyful voice come therein.

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3:8

Let them curse it that curse the day, Who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

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3:9

Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; Let it look for light, but have none; Neither let it behold the eyelids of the morning;

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3:10

Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother’s] womb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

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3:11

Why died I not from the womb? Why did I not perish at birth?

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3:12

Why did the knees receive me? And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?

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3:13

For now should I have lain still and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest—

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3:14

With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

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3:15

Or with princes that had gold, Who filled their houses with silver;

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3:16

Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; As infants that never saw light.

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3:17

There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.

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3:18

There the prisoners are at ease together; They hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

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3:19

The small and great are there alike; And the servant is free from his master.

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3:20

Wherewith is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul—

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3:21

Who long for death, but it cometh not; And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

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3:22

Who rejoice unto exultation, And are glad, when they can find the grave?—

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3:23

To a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?

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3:24

For my sighing cometh instead of my food, And my roarings are poured out like water.

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3:25

For the thing which I did fear is come upon me, And that which I was afraid of hath overtaken me.

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3:26

I was not at ease, neither was I quiet, Neither had I rest; but trouble came.

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