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Job 3 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 3
Job Deplores His Birth
Job Regrets His Birth
1 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 And Job spoke, and said:
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3 ​​“May the day perish on which I was born,
​​And the night in which it was said,
​‘​A male child is conceived.’
4 ​​May that day be darkness;
​​May God above not seek it,
​​Nor the light shine upon it.
5 ​​May darkness and the shadow of death claim it;
​​May a cloud settle on it;
​​May the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 ​​As for that night, may darkness seize it;
​​May it not rejoice[fn] among the days of the year,
​​May it not come into the number of the months.
7 ​​Oh, may that night be barren!
​​May no joyful shout come into it!
8 ​​May those curse it who curse the day,
​​Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan.
9 ​​May the stars of its morning be dark;
​​May it look for light, but have none,
​​And not see the dawning of the day;
10 ​​Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,
​​Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.
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11 ​​“Why did I not die at birth?
​​Why did I not perish when I came from the womb?
12 ​​Why did the knees receive me?
​​Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
13 ​​For now I would have lain still and been quiet,
​​I would have been asleep;
​​Then I would have been at rest
14 ​​With kings and counselors of the earth,
​​Who built ruins for themselves,
15 ​​Or with princes who had gold,
​​Who filled their houses with silver;
16 ​​Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child,
​​Like infants who never saw light?
17 ​​There the wicked cease from troubling,
​​And there the weary are at rest.
18 ​​There the prisoners rest together;
​​They do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
19 ​​The small and great are there,
​​And the servant is free from his master.
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20 ​​“Why is light given to him who is in misery,
​​And life to the bitter of soul,
21 ​​Who long for death, but it does not come,
​​And search for it more than hidden treasures;
22 ​​Who rejoice exceedingly,
​​And are glad when they can find the grave?
23 ​​Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
​​And whom God has hedged in?
24 ​​For my sighing comes before I eat,[fn]
​​And my groanings pour out like water.
25 ​​For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me,
​​And what I dreaded has happened to me.
26 ​​I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;
​​I have no rest, for trouble comes.”
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NKJV Footnotes
Septuagint, Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate read be joined.
Literally my bread
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