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Job 3
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 Three friends accuse Job
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| 3:1
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
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| 3:2
And Job spake, and said,
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| 3:3
Let the day perish
wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man
child conceived. |
(3:2-3, 11, 16)
Because of God's cruel wager with Satan,
Job curses the day he was born.
(3:2-3) "Job spake, and said, Let the day perish wherein I was born."
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| 3:4
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let
the light shine upon it.
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| 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it;
let the blackness of the day terrify it.
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| 3:6
As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto
the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. |
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| 3:7
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. |
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| 3:8
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their
mourning. |
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| 3:9
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but
have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: |
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| 3:10
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from
mine eyes. |
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Why died I not from the
womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? |
(3:11) "Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?"
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| 3:12
Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? |
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| 3:13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then
had I been at rest, |
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| 3:14
With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for
themselves; |
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Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: |
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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw
light. |
(3:16) "Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw
light."
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| 3:17
There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. |
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| 3:18
There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the
oppressor. |
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The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. |
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| 3:20
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the
bitter in soul; |
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Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid
treasures; |
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| 3:22
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? |
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| 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? |
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For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like
the waters. |
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| 3:25
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was
afraid of is come unto me. |
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| 3:26
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble
came.
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