Job 3
Job Regrets His Birth
1⌞Afterward⌟ ▼▼Literally “After thus”
Job opened his mouth and cursed ▼▼A different term than that employed in 1:5, 11; 2:5, 9
his day. 2Thus ▼▼Hebrew “And”
Job ⌞spoke up⌟ ▼▼Literally “answered”
and said, 3“Let the day perish on which I was born,and the night that said, ‘A man-child is conceived.’
4Let that day become ▼
▼Or “be”
darkness;may God not seek it from above,
nor may daylight shine on it.
5Let darkness and deep shadow claim it;
let clouds ▼
▼Literally “cloud”
settle on it;let them ▼
▼Masculine plural referring to all three entities mentioned in this verse
terrify it with the blackness ▼▼Literally “blacknesses”
of day. 6Let darkness seize that night; ▼
▼Literally “That night, let darkness seize it”
let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
let it not enter among the number of the months.
7Look, let that night become ▼
▼Or “be”
barren;let a joyful song not enter it.
8Let those who curse the day curse it,
those who are skilled at rousing Leviathan.
9Let the stars of its dawn be dark;
let it hope for light but ▼
▼Hebrew “and”
there be none,and let it not see the eyelids of dawn
10because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,
nor ▼
▼Hebrew “And”
did it hide trouble from my eyes.Job Wishes He Had Died
11“Why did I not die at ▼▼Literally “from”
birth?Why did I not come forth from the womb and expire?
12Why did the knees receive me
and the breasts, that I could suck?
13For now I would lie down, and I would be at peace;
I would be asleep; then ⌞I would be at rest⌟ ▼
▼Literally “it would be at rest for me”
14with kings and counselors of the earth,
who ⌞rebuild⌟ ▼
▼Literally “build”
ruins for themselves, 15or with high officials ⌞who have gold⌟, ▼
▼Literally “gold is for them”
who fill up their houses with silver.
16Or why was I not hidden like a miscarriage,
like infants who did not see the light?
17There the wicked cease from troubling,
and there the ⌞weary⌟ ▼
▼Literally “weary of strength”
are at rest; 18the prisoners are at ease together;
they do not hear the oppressor’s voice.
19The small and the great are there,
and the slave is free from his masters. ▼
▼Or “master”
Job Wishes He Might Die
20“Why does he ▼▼Most likely God
give light to one in miseryand life to those bitter of soul,
21who wait for death, but ▼
▼Hebrew “and”
⌞it does not come⌟, ▼▼Literally “it is not”
and search ▼
▼Or “dig”
for it more than for treasures, 22who rejoice ⌞exceedingly⌟, ▼
▼Literally “unto rejoicing”
and they are glad when they find the grave?
23Why does he ▼
▼Most likely God
give light to a man whose way is hidden,and God has fenced him in all around?
24For ▼
▼Or perhaps emphatic, “Indeed”
my sighing comes ⌞before⌟ ▼▼Or “in place of” (NET); literally “to the faces of”
my bread, ▼▼Or “food”
and my groanings gush forth like water
25because the dread that I ⌞feel⌟ ▼
▼Literally “dread”
has come upon me,and what I feared befalls me.
26I am not at ease, and I am not at peace,
and I do not have rest, thus ▼
▼Hebrew “and”
turmoil has come.”
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