📖 Job 3
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II. Job’s Dialogue With His Friends(3:1-27:33) Job Regrets His Birth After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.
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Job spoke up and said:
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“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said,‘A man has been conceived!’
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That day– let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!
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Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!
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That night– let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!
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Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it!
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Let those who curse the day curse it– those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
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Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,
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because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!
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Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth“Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
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Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
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For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
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with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,
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or with princes who possessed gold, who filled their palaces with silver.
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Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?
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There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.
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There the prisoners relax together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
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Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
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Longing for Death“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,
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to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,
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who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?
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Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
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For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
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For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.
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I have no ease, I have no quietness; I cannot rest; turmoil has come upon me.”