Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
Abbreviate Books
Quotes around Verses      |
 Job 3:1 |
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. |
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Job 3:2 |
And Job said: |
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Job 3:3 |
"Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man is conceived.' |
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Job 3:4 |
"Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it. |
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Job 3:5 |
"Let gloom and deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. |
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Job 3:6 |
"That night--let thick darkness seize it! Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. |
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Job 3:7 |
"Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry enter it. |
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Job 3:8 |
"Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan. |
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Job 3:9 |
"Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light, but have none, nor see the eyelids of the morning, |
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Job 3:10 |
"because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes. |
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Job 3:11 |
"Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire? |
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Job 3:12 |
"Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse? |
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Job 3:13 |
"For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest, |
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Job 3:14 |
"with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves, |
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Job 3:15 |
"or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver. |
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Job 3:16 |
"Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child, as infants who never see the light? |
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Job 3:17 |
"There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary are at rest. |
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Job 3:18 |
"There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster. |
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Job 3:19 |
"The small and the great are there, and the slave is free from his master. |
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Job 3:20 |
"Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul, |
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Job 3:21 |
"who long for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, |
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Job 3:22 |
"who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave? |
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Job 3:23 |
"Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in? |
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Job 3:24 |
"For my sighing comes instead of [fn] my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water. |
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Job 3:25 |
"For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me. |
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Job 3:26 |
"I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes." |
ESV Footnotes:
- (3:24) Or like; Hebrew before
