Thematic Bible
Job 3:1 (show verse)
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.
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Job 3:2 (show verse)
Job spoke up and said:
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Job 3:3 (show verse)
"Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said, 'A man has been conceived!'
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Job 3:4 (show verse)
That day -- let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!
Job 3:5 (show verse)
Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!
Job 3:6 (show verse)
That night -- let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!
Job 3:7 (show verse)
Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it!
Job 3:8 (show verse)
Let those who curse the day curse it -- those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
Job 3:9 (show verse)
Let its morning stars be darkened; let it wait for daylight but find none, nor let it see the first rays of dawn,
Job 3:10 (show verse)
because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!
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Job 3:11 (show verse)
"Why did I not die at birth, and why did I not expire as I came out of the womb?
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Job 3:12 (show verse)
Why did the knees welcome me, and why were there two breasts that I might nurse at them?
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Job 3:13 (show verse)
For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
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Job 3:14 (show verse)
with kings and counselors of the earth who built for themselves places now desolate,
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Job 3:15 (show verse)
or with princes who possessed gold, who filled their palaces with silver.
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Job 3:16 (show verse)
Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?
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Job 3:17 (show verse)
There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.
Job 3:18 (show verse)
There the prisoners relax together; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
Job 3:19 (show verse)
Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.
Job 3:20 (show verse)
"Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,
Job 3:21 (show verse)
to those who wait for death that does not come, and search for it more than for hidden treasures,
Job 3:22 (show verse)
who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?
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Job 3:23 (show verse)
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
Job 3:24 (show verse)
For my sighing comes in place of my food, and my groanings flow forth like water.
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Job 3:25 (show verse)
For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.
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Job 3:26 (show verse)
I have no ease, I have no quietness; I cannot rest; turmoil has come upon me."
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