Job’s Lament
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“May that day be darkness;
Let not God above care for it,
Nor light shine on it.
5 Let not God above care for it,
Nor light shine on it.
“Let (B)darkness and black gloom claim it;
Let a cloud settle on it;
Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 Let a cloud settle on it;
Let the blackness of the day terrify it.
“As for that night, let darkness seize it;
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
Let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
Let it not come into the number of the months.
“Behold, let that night be barren;
Let no joyful shout enter it.
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9 Let no joyful shout enter it.
“Let the stars of its twilight be darkened;
Let it wait for light but have none,
And let it not see the (e)breaking dawn;
10 Let it wait for light but have none,
And let it not see the (e)breaking dawn;
Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb,
Or hide trouble from my eyes.
Or hide trouble from my eyes.
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“Why did the knees receive me,
And why the breasts, that I should suck?
13 And why the breasts, that I should suck?
“For now I (E)would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
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18 I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
“The prisoners are at ease together;
They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19 They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
“The small and the great are there,
And the slave is free from his master.
And the slave is free from his master.
Footnotes:
a.
Job 3:1: ['Lit ', his day]
b.
Job 3:2: ['Lit ', answered and said]
c.
Job 3:3: ['Lit ', man-child]
d.
Job 3:8: ['Or ', skillful]
e.
Job 3:9: ['Lit ', eyelids]
f.
Job 3:11: ['Lit ', from the womb]
g.
Job 3:16: ['Lit ', hidden]
h.
Job 3:17: ['Lit ', weary of strength]
i.
Job 3:21: ['Lit ', wait]
j.
Job 3:25: ['Lit ', the fear I fear and]
Cross references:
E.
Job 3:13:
Job 3:13-19; Job 7:8-10; Job 7:21; Job 10:21; Job 10:22; Job 14:10-15; Job 14:20-22; Job 16:22; Job 17:13-16; Job 19:25-27; Job 21:13; Job 21:23-26; Job 24:19; Job 24:20; Job 26:5; Job 26:6; Job 34:22
N.
Job 3:21:
Proverbs 2:4