The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Job 03
1 After this Job opened his mouth, and
cursed the day of his birth.
2 Job answered:
3 “Let the day perish in which I was born,
the night which said, ‘There is a boy
conceived.’
4 Let that day be darkness.
Don’t let God from above seek for it,
neither let the light shine on it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death
claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it.
Let all that makes the day black terrify
it.
6 As for that night, let thick darkness seize
on it. Let it not rejoice among the days ofthe
year. Let it not come into the number of the
months.
7 Behold, let that night be barren.
Let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it who curse the day,
who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark.
Let it look for light, but have none,
neither let it see the eyelids of the
morning,
10 because it didn’t shut up the doors of my
mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
11 “Why didn’t I die from the womb?
Why didn’t I give up the spirit when
my mother bore me?
12 Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breast,thatI should nurse?
13 For now I should have lain down and
been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have
been at rest,
14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
15 or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver;
16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not
been, as infants who never saw light.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling.
There the weary are at rest.
18 There the prisoners are at ease together.
They don’t hear the voice of the
taskmaster.
19 The small and the great are there.
The servant is free from his master.
20 “Why is light given to him who is in
misery, life to the bitter in soul,
21 who long for death, but it doesn’t come;
and dig for it more than for hidden
treasures,
22 who rejoice exceedingly,
and are glad, when they can find the
grave?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is
hidden, whom God has hedged in?
24 For my sighing comes before I eat.
My groanings are poured out like water.
25 For the thing which I fear comes on me,
that which I am afraid of comes to me.
26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet,
neither do I have rest;
but trouble comes.”