Job 3 NKJV

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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/job/3.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Job Deplores His Birth</span></h3><p class="chapter-1"><span class="text Job-3-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his <i>birth.</i> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Job <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>spoke, and said:</span></p> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“May the day perish on which I was born,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-3">And the night <i>in which</i> it was said,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-3">‘A male child is conceived.’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>May that day be darkness;</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-4">May God above not seek it,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-4">Nor the light shine upon it.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>May darkness and the shadow of death claim it;</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-5">May a cloud settle on it;</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-5">May the blackness of the day terrify it.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><i>As for</i> that night, may darkness seize it;</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-6">May it not <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>rejoice among the days of the year,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-6">May it not come into the number of the months.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Oh, may that night be barren!</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-7">May no joyful shout come into it!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>May those curse it who curse the day,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-8">Those who are ready to arouse Leviathan.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>May the stars of its morning be dark;</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-9">May it look for light, but <i>have</i> none,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-9">And not see the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>dawning of the day;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Because it did not shut up the doors of my <i>mother’s</i> womb,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-10">Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Why did I not die at birth?</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-11"><i>Why</i> did I <i>not</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>perish when I came from the womb?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Why did the knees receive me?</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-12">Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For now I would have lain still and been quiet,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-13">I would have been asleep;</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-13">Then I would have been at rest</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>With kings and counselors of the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-14">Who built ruins for themselves,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Or with princes who had gold,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-15">Who filled their houses <i>with</i> silver;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Or <i>why</i> was I not hidden like a stillborn child,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-16">Like infants who never saw light?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>There the wicked cease <i>from</i> troubling,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-17">And there the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>weary are at rest.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><i>There</i> the prisoners <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>rest together;</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-18">They do not hear the voice of the oppressor.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The small and great are there,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-19">And the servant <i>is</i> free from his master.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“Why is light given to him who is in misery,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-20">And life to the bitter of soul,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Who long<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span> for death, but it does not <i>come,</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-3-21">And search for it more than hidden treasures;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Who rejoice exceedingly,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-22"><i>And</i> are glad when they can find the grave?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><i>Why is light given</i> to a man whose way is hidden,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-23">And whom God has hedged in?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For my sighing comes before <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>I eat,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-24">And my groanings pour out like water.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me,</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-25">And what I dreaded has happened to me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;</span><br /><span class="text Job-3-26">I have no rest, for trouble comes.”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-12907a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 3:2">Job 3:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>answered</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12911b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 3:6">Job 3:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg. <i>be joined</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12914c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 3:9">Job 3:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>eyelids of the dawn</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12916d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 3:11">Job 3:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>expire</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12922e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 3:17">Job 3:17</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>weary of strength</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12923f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 3:18">Job 3:18</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>are at ease</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12926g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 3:21">Job 3:21</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>wait</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12929h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 3:24">Job 3:24</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>my bread</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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