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Job 3

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1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.

RelatedJeremiah 20:14-15 · Psalms 106:33 · Psalms 39:2-3 · Job 2:5 · Job 3:3 · Job 2:9-10

2Job answered:

RelatedJudges 18:14

3“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

RelatedJeremiah 20:14-18 · Job 10:18-19 · Jeremiah 15:10

4Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

RelatedDeuteronomy 11:12 · Exodus 10:22-23 · Revelation 16:10 · Amos 5:18 · Acts 27:20 · Matthew 27:45

5Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.

RelatedJob 10:21-22 · Job 28:3 · Psalms 23:4 · Jeremiah 2:6 · Deuteronomy 4:11 · Jeremiah 13:16

6As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

7Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

RelatedIsaiah 13:20-22 · Revelation 18:22-23 · Isaiah 24:8 · Jeremiah 7:34

8Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

RelatedJob 41:1 · Job 41:10 · Amos 5:16 · Matthew 11:17 · 2 Chronicles 35:25 · Mark 5:38

9Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

RelatedJob 41:18 · Jeremiah 8:15 · Job 30:26 · Jeremiah 13:16

10because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

RelatedJeremiah 20:17 · Ecclesiastes 6:3-5 · Genesis 20:18 · Ecclesiastes 11:10 · Job 23:2 · Genesis 29:31

11“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

RelatedJob 10:18-19 · Isaiah 46:3 · Jeremiah 15:10 · Psalms 71:6 · Psalms 22:9-10 · Hosea 9:14

12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

RelatedGenesis 30:3 · Isaiah 66:12 · Genesis 50:23 · Ezekiel 16:4-5

13For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

RelatedJob 21:13 · Ecclesiastes 9:10 · Job 14:10-12 · Job 10:22 · Job 19:27 · Ecclesiastes 6:3-5

14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

RelatedJob 15:28 · Psalms 89:48 · Psalms 49:14 · Isaiah 14:10-16 · Ezekiel 26:20 · Job 30:23

15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;

Related1 Kings 10:27 · Zephaniah 1:18 · Job 22:25 · Zechariah 9:3 · Numbers 22:18 · Job 27:16-17

16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

RelatedPsalms 58:8 · Ecclesiastes 6:3 · 1 Corinthians 15:8

17There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

RelatedRevelation 14:13 · Job 17:16 · Hebrews 4:11 · Isaiah 57:1-2 · Hebrews 4:9 · Job 14:13

18There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.

RelatedJob 39:7 · Exodus 5:6-8 · Judges 4:3 · Isaiah 14:3-4 · Exodus 5:15-19

19The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

RelatedEcclesiastes 8:8 · Job 30:23 · Ecclesiastes 12:7 · Luke 16:22-23 · Ecclesiastes 12:5 · Psalms 49:14-20

20“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

RelatedJeremiah 20:18 · Job 7:15-16 · Proverbs 31:6 · 1 Samuel 1:10 · Job 3:16 · 2 Kings 4:27

21who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

RelatedRevelation 9:6 · Proverbs 2:4 · Jonah 4:3 · Jonah 4:8 · 1 Kings 19:4 · Numbers 11:15

22who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

RelatedJob 19:8 · Lamentations 3:7 · Isaiah 40:27 · Hosea 2:6 · Psalms 31:8 · Job 12:14

24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

RelatedPsalms 102:9 · Psalms 42:3-4 · Psalms 80:5 · Psalms 38:8 · Psalms 32:3 · Job 7:19

25For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.

RelatedJob 1:5 · Job 30:15 · Job 31:23

26I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”

RelatedJob 7:14 · Psalms 143:11 · Job 27:9

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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.