Old Testament · BSB
Job 3
Berean Standard Bible · 26 verses
- After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
- And this is what he said:
- “May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
- If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.
- May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
- If 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.
- Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.
- May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
- May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
- For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
- Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
- Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
- For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
- with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
- or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
- Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
- There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
- The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
- Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
- Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
- who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,
- who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?
- Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
- I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
- For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
- I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come.”