Thematic Bible
Job 3:1 (show verse)
After this, opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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Job 3:2 (show verse)
So then Job began, and said:
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Job 3:3 (show verse)
Perish, the day wherein I was born, and the night it was said, Lo! a manchild!
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Job 3:4 (show verse)
That day, be it darkness, - Let not God enquire after it from above, May there shine upon it no clear beam:
Job 3:5 (show verse)
Let darkness and death-shade buy it back, May there settle down upon it a cloud, Let a day's dark eclipse cause it terror:
Job 3:6 (show verse)
That night, darkness take it, - May it not rejoice among the days of the year, Into the number of months, let it not enter.
Job 3:7 (show verse)
Lo! that night, be it barren, Let no joyous shouting enter therein:
Job 3:8 (show verse)
Let day-cursers denounce it, Those skilled in rousing the dragon of the sky:
Job 3:9 (show verse)
Darkened be the stars of its twilight, - Let it wait for light, and there be none, neither let it see the eyelashes of the dawn:
Job 3:10 (show verse)
Because it closed not the doors of the womb wherein I was, and so hid trouble from mine eyes.
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Job 3:11 (show verse)
Wherefore, in the womb, did I not die? From the womb, come forth and cease to breathe?
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Job 3:12 (show verse)
For what reason, were there prepared for me - knees? and why - breasts, that I might suck?
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Job 3:13 (show verse)
Surely, at once, had I lain down, and been quiet, I had fallen asleep, then, had I been at rest:
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Job 3:14 (show verse)
With kings, and counselors of the earth, who had built them pyramids:
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Job 3:15 (show verse)
Or with rulers possessing, gold, - Who had filled their houses with silver:
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Job 3:16 (show verse)
Or that, like an untimely birth hidden away, I had not come into being, like infants that never saw light:
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Job 3:17 (show verse)
There, the lawless, cease from raging, and there the toil-worn are at rest:
Job 3:18 (show verse)
At once are prisoners at peace, they hear not the voice of a driver:
Job 3:19 (show verse)
Small and great, there, they are, and, the slave, is free from his master.
Job 3:20 (show verse)
Wherefore give, to the wretched, light? Or, life, to the embittered in soul? -
Job 3:21 (show verse)
Who long for death, and it is not, And have digged for it, beyond hid treasures:
Job 3:22 (show verse)
Who rejoice unto exultation, Are glad, when they can find the grave:
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Job 3:23 (show verse)
To a man, whose way is concealed, And GOD hath straitly enclosed him?
Job 3:24 (show verse)
For, in the face of my food, my sighing, cometh in, and, poured out like the water, are my groans:
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Job 3:25 (show verse)
For, a dread, I dreaded, and it hath come upon me, and, that from which I shrank, hath overtaken me.
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Job 3:26 (show verse)
I was not careless, nor was I secure, nor had I settled down, - when there came - consternation!
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