Thematic Bible
Job 3:1 (show verse)
After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
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Job 3:2 (show verse)
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Job 3:3 (show verse)
“Let the day on which I was born perish,
And the night which announced: ‘There is a man-child conceived.’
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Job 3:4 (show verse)
“May that day be darkness;
Let God above not care about it,
Nor light shine on it.
Job 3:5 (show verse)
“Let darkness and gloom claim it for their own;
Let a cloud settle upon it;
Let all that blackens the day terrify it (the day that I was born).
Job 3:6 (show verse)
“As for that night, let darkness seize it;
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
Let it not be counted in the number of the months.
Job 3:7 (show verse)
“Behold, let that night be barren [and empty];
Let no joyful voice enter it.
Job 3:8 (show verse)
“Let those curse it
Who are skilled in rousing up Leviathan.
Job 3:9 (show verse)
“Let the stars of its early dawn be dark;
Let the morning wait in vain for the light,
Let it not see the eyelids of morning (the day’s dawning),
Job 3:10 (show verse)
Because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hide trouble from my eyes.
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Job 3:11 (show verse)
“Why did I not die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?
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Job 3:12 (show verse)
“Why did the knees receive me?
And why the breasts, that I would nurse?
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Job 3:13 (show verse)
“For now I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept then, I would have been at rest [in death],
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Job 3:14 (show verse)
With kings and counselors of the earth,
Who built up [now desolate] ruins for themselves;
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Job 3:15 (show verse)
Or with princes who had gold,
Who filled their houses with silver.
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Job 3:16 (show verse)
“Or like a miscarriage which is hidden and put away, I would not exist,
Like infants who never saw light.
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Job 3:17 (show verse)
“There [in death] the wicked cease from raging,
And there the weary are at rest.
Job 3:18 (show verse)
“There the prisoners rest together;
They do not hear the taskmaster’s voice.
Job 3:19 (show verse)
“The small and the great are there,
And the servant is free from his master.
Job 3:20 (show verse)
“Why is the light given to him who is in misery,
And life to the bitter in soul,
Job 3:21 (show verse)
Who wait for death, but it does not come,
And dig (search) for death more [diligently] than for hidden treasures,
Job 3:22 (show verse)
Who rejoice exceedingly,
And rejoice when they find the grave?
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Job 3:23 (show verse)
“Why is the light of day given to a man whose way is hidden,
And whom God has hedged in?
Job 3:24 (show verse)
“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries [of despair] are poured out like water.
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Job 3:25 (show verse)
“For the thing which I greatly fear comes upon me,
And that of which I am afraid has come upon me.
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Job 3:26 (show verse)
“I am not at ease, nor am I quiet,
And I am not at rest, and yet trouble still comes [upon me].”
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