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Read Job 3

World English Bible · 26 verses

¹ After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
² Job answered:This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³ “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴ Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵ Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁶ As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁷ Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁸ Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁹ Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁰ because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹¹ “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹² Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹³ For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁴ with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁵ or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁶ or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁷ There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁸ There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁹ The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁰ “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²¹ who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²² who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²³ Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁴ For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁵ For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁶ I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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