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Job 3 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:1 - Then, opening his mouth, and cursing the day of his birth,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:2 - Job made answer and said,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:3 - Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:4 - That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:5 - Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:6 - That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:7 - As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:8 - Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:9 - Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:10 - Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:11 - Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:12 - Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:13 - For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:14 - With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:15 - Or with rulers who had gold, and whose houses were full of silver;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16 - Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:17 - There the passions of the evil are over, and those whose strength has come to an end have rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:18 - There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:19 - The small and the great are there, and the servant is free from his master.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:20 - Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:21 - To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:22 - Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:23 - To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:24 - In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:25 - For I have a fear and it comes on me, and my heart is greatly troubled.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:26 - I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Job Chapter 3 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras