Job - Chapter 3 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Finally Job broke the silence and cursed the day on which he had been born.
  • 2. O God, put a curse on the day I was born; put a curse on the night when I was conceived!
  • 3. {cf15I (SEE 3:2)}
  • 4. Turn that day into darkness, God. Never again remember that day; never again let light shine on it.
  • 5. Make it a day of gloom and thick darkness; cover it with clouds, and blot out the sun.
  • 6. Blot that night out of the year, and never let it be counted again;
  • 7. make it a barren, joyless night.
  • 8. Tell the sorcerers to curse that day, those who know how to control Leviathan.
  • 9. Keep the morning star from shining; give that night no hope of dawn.
  • 10. Curse that night for letting me be born, for exposing me to trouble and grief.
  • 11. I wish I had died in my mother's womb or died the moment I was born.
  • 12. Why did my mother hold me on her knees? Why did she feed me at her breast?
  • 13. If I had died then, I would be at rest now,
  • 14. sleeping like the kings and rulers who rebuilt ancient palaces.
  • 15. Then I would be sleeping like princes who filled their houses with gold and silver,
  • 16. or sleeping like a stillborn child.
  • 17. In the grave wicked people stop their evil, and tired workers find rest at last.
  • 18. Even prisoners enjoy peace, free from shouts and harsh commands.
  • 19. Everyone is there, the famous and the unknown, and slaves at last are free.
  • 20. Why let people go on living in misery? Why give light to those in grief ?
  • 21. They wait for death, but it never comes; they prefer a grave to any treasure.
  • 22. They are not happy till they are dead and buried;
  • 23. God keeps their future hidden and hems them in on every side.
  • 24. Instead of eating, I mourn, and I can never stop groaning.
  • 25. Everything I fear and dread comes true.
  • 26. I have no peace, no rest, and my troubles never end.
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