Job 3:1-10

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1} Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed ^(a)the day of his birth. ^{Tools
2} And Job ^(b)said,

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“^(A)Let the day perish on which I was to be born,
And the night which said, ‘A ^(c)boy is conceived.’

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“May that day be darkness;
Let not God above care for it,
Nor light shine on it.

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“Let ^(B)darkness and black gloom claim it;
Let a cloud settle on it;
Let the blackness of the day terrify it.

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“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.

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“Behold, let that night be barren;
Let no joyful shout enter it.

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“Let those curse it who curse the day,
Who are ^(d)prepared to ^(C)rouse Leviathan.

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“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;

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Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb,
Or hide trouble from my eyes.

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]

A. Job 3:3: Jeremiah 20:14-18

B. Job 3:5: Jeremiah 13:16

C. Job 3:8: Job 41:1; Job 41:25