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Job 3

¹Finally Job broke the silence and cursed the day on which he had been born.

²O God, put a curse on the day I was born; put a curse on the night when I was conceived!

⁴Turn that day into darkness, God. Never again remember that day; never again let light shine on it.

⁵Make it a day of gloom and thick darkness; cover it with clouds, and blot out the sun.

⁶Blot that night out of the year, and never let it be counted again;

⁷make it a barren, joyless night.

⁸Tell the sorcerers to curse that day, those who know how to control Leviathan.

⁹Keep the morning star from shining; give that night no hope of dawn.

¹⁰Curse that night for letting me be born, for exposing me to trouble and grief.

¹¹I wish I had died in my mother's womb or died the moment I was born.

¹²Why did my mother hold me on her knees? Why did she feed me at her breast?

¹³If I had died then, I would be at rest now,

¹⁴sleeping like the kings and rulers who rebuilt ancient palaces.

¹⁵Then I would be sleeping like princes who filled their houses with gold and silver,

¹⁶or sleeping like a stillborn child.

¹⁷In the grave wicked people stop their evil, and tired workers find rest at last.

¹⁸Even prisoners enjoy peace, free from shouts and harsh commands.

¹⁹Everyone is there, the famous and the unknown, and slaves at last are free.

²⁰Why let people go on living in misery? Why give light to those in grief ?

²¹They wait for death, but it never comes; they prefer a grave to any treasure.

²²They are not happy till they are dead and buried;

²³God keeps their future hidden and hems them in on every side.

²⁴Instead of eating, I mourn, and I can never stop groaning.

²⁵Everything I fear and dread comes true.

²⁶I have no peace, no rest, and my troubles never end.