Job Chapter 3
1 Afterward Job cursed the day he was born: [ 2 ]
3 “Perish the day I was born,
the night I was conceived.
4 May that be a dark day;
let God above not care about it
or any light shine on it.
5 Let darkness and gloom claim it,
dark clouds cover it, and darkness make it terrifying.
6 Let darkness seize that night;
let it not celebrate among the days of the year
or be counted among the months.
7 Let that night be barren,
and no joyful shout be heard in it.
8 Let them curse it who curse the daytime,
who dare to arouse Leviathan.
9 Let its morning stars be blacked out;
let it hope for light, but not get any,
or see the eyelids of the morning;
10 because it didn’t shut my mother’s womb
or hide trouble from me.
Job 3:1-10
11 “Why didn’t I die at birth—
just come out of the womb and die?
12 Why did the knees receive me
and the breasts that nursed me?
13 Then I would’ve lain down in peace;
I would’ve slept and been at rest
14 with kings and advisors
that rebuilt ruins for themselves,
15 with rulers that had gold
and filled their houses with silver.
16 Why wasn’t I a miscarriage that was discarded,
that never saw the light of day?
17 Sinners stop raging in death,
and the weary rest.
18 Captives are at ease together;
they don’t hear a taskmaster.
19 The least and the greatest are there;
slaves are free from their masters.
Job 3:11-19
20 “Why does light come to those who are suffering,
and life to the bitter;
21 to people who long for death and it doesn’t come,
who dig for it more than for hidden treasure;
22 who celebrate greatly,
glad to find the grave?
23 Why is light given to someone with no future,
someone God has hemmed in with difficulties?
24 I sigh at the sight of food
and pour out groans like water;
25 because what I’m afraid of comes at me,
and what I dread happens to me.
26 I’m not at ease, I’m not at peace;