LEB - Job - 3

3:1  ⌞Afterward⌟ Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

3:2  Thus Job ⌞spoke up⌟ and said,

3:3  “Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, ‘A man-child is conceived.’

3:4  Let that day become darkness; may God not seek it from above, nor may daylight shine on it.

3:5  Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let clouds settle on it; let them terrify it with the blackness of day.

3:6  Let darkness seize that night; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months.

3:7  Look, let that night become barren; let a joyful song not enter it.

3:8  Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled at rousing Leviathan.

3:9  Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but there be none, and let it not see the eyelids of dawn

3:10  because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

3:11  “Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not come forth from the womb and expire?

3:12  Why did the knees receive me and the breasts, that I could suck?

3:13  For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace; I would be asleep; then ⌞I would be at rest⌟

3:14  with kings and counselors of the earth, who ⌞rebuild⌟ ruins for themselves,

3:15  or with high officials ⌞who have gold⌟, who fill up their houses with silver.

3:16  Or why was I not hidden like a miscarriage, like infants who did not see the light?

3:17  There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the ⌞weary⌟ are at rest;

3:18  the prisoners are at ease together; they do not hear the oppressor’s voice.

3:19  The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his masters.

3:20  “Why does he give light to one in misery and life to those bitter of soul,

3:21  who wait for death, but ⌞it does not come⌟, and search for it more than for treasures,

3:22  who rejoice ⌞exceedingly⌟, and they are glad when they find the grave?

3:23  Why does he give light to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in all around?

3:24  For my sighing comes ⌞before⌟ my bread, and my groanings gush forth like water

3:25  because the dread that I ⌞feel⌟ has come upon me, and what I feared befalls me.

3:26  I am not at ease, and I am not at peace, and I do not have rest, thus turmoil has come.”