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    Job · 26 verses

    Job 3

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    Job would have the day of his birth struck from the year so completely that no month would admit it.

    A day expelled from the calendarvv. 1–10

    After this, Job opens his mouth—not to curse a person, but the day itself. He calls for darkness, gloom, cloud and blackness to reclaim it, and then for the night to be erased from the year altogether. The appeal grows wonderfully strange at the edge: let it be cursed by those prepared to rouse Leviathan, though the speech offers no account of who these people are or how one rouses Leviathan.

    The peace of the gravevv. 11–19

    Job asks why he was not allowed to die at birth, and imagines the place beyond birth as an astonishingly level country. Kings, princes, captives, the weary, the small and the great are all there; the wicked cease their raging, the oppressor’s voice is unheard, and the slave is free from the master. Death, which he has been denied, becomes the hidden treasure for which the miserable search—and the grave, when reached, a cause for rejoicing.

    Life hedged invv. 20–26

    The lament turns from the lost day and the desired grave to the baffling persistence of life. Job asks why light and life are given to those who are bitter of soul, and why life is given to a man whose way is hidden and whom God has hedged in. Food brings sighs, groans pour out like water, fear has arrived in person, and there is no quiet left to be found.

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    1. Job 3:1After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

    2. Job 3:2And this is what he said:

    3. Job 3:3“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’

    4. Job 3:4If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.

    5. Job 3:5May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.

    6. Job 3:6If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.

    7. Job 3:7Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.

    8. Job 3:8May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.

    9. Job 3:9May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.

    10. Job 3:10For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.

    11. Job 3:11Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?

    12. Job 3:12Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?

    13. Job 3:13For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

    14. Job 3:14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,

    15. Job 3:15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.

    16. Job 3:16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

    17. Job 3:17There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.

    18. Job 3:18The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

    19. Job 3:19Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.

    20. Job 3:20Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,

    21. Job 3:21who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,

    22. Job 3:22who rejoice and greatly exult when they reach the grave?

    23. Job 3:23Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

    24. Job 3:24I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

    25. Job 3:25For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.

    26. Job 3:26I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come.”

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    • 25Job 1:5And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
    • 25Job 30:15Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
    • 25Job 31:23For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.
    • 8Job 41:1“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
    • 21Revelation 9:6In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.
    • 23Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
    • 1Jeremiah 20:14–15Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother bore me never be blessed.
    • 5Job 28:3Man puts an end to the darkness; he probes the farthest recesses for ore in deepest darkness.
    • 5Job 10:21–22before I go—never to return—to a land of darkness and gloom,
    • 16Psalms 58:8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
    • 20Jeremiah 20:18Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
    • 3Job 10:18–19Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
    • 3Jeremiah 15:10Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
    • 5Jeremiah 2:6They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
    • 5Psalms 23:4Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
    • 17Revelation 14:13And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.”

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