The Book of Job

Chapters:

1 2 3 4 5 6 …   ⇤ ← 3 → ⇥

verse #1

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

verse #2

Job answered:

verse #3

“Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’

verse #4

Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

verse #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.

verse #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.

verse #7

Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.

verse #8

Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

verse #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,

verse #10

because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

verse #11

“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

verse #12

Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?

verse #13

For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

verse #14

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

verse #15

or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;

verse #16

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

verse #17

There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

verse #18

There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.

verse #19

The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

verse #20

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

verse #21

who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

verse #22

who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

verse #23

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

verse #24

For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

verse #25

For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.

verse #26

I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”

Chapters:

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