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title="Job 2">◄</a> Job 3 <a href="../job/4.htm" title="Job 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/job/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Job’s First Speech</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>At last Job spoke, and he cursed the day of his birth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He said:</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“Let the day of my birth be erased,</p><p class="line2">and the night I was conceived.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Let that day be turned to darkness.</p><p class="line2">Let it be lost even to God on high,</p><p class="line2">and let no light shine on it.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Let the darkness and utter gloom claim that day for its own.</p><p class="line2">Let a black cloud overshadow it,</p><p class="line2">and let the darkness terrify it.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Let that night be blotted off the calendar,</p><p class="line2">never again to be counted among the days of the year,</p><p class="line2">never again to appear among the months.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Let that night be childless.</p><p class="line2">Let it have no joy.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Let those who are experts at cursing—</p><p class="line2">whose cursing could rouse Leviathan<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a>—</p><p class="line2">curse that day.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Let its morning stars remain dark.</p><p class="line2">Let it hope for light, but in vain;</p><p class="line2">may it never see the morning light.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Curse that day for failing to shut my mother’s womb,</p><p class="line2">for letting me be born to see all this trouble.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Why wasn’t I born dead?</p><p class="line2">Why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Why was I laid on my mother’s lap?</p><p class="line2">Why did she nurse me at her breasts?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Had I died at birth, I would now be at peace.</p><p class="line2">I would be asleep and at rest.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I would rest with the world’s kings and prime ministers,</p><p class="line2">whose great buildings now lie in ruins.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>I would rest with princes, rich in gold,</p><p class="line2">whose palaces were filled with silver.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Why wasn’t I buried like a stillborn child,</p><p class="line2">like a baby who never lives to see the light?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For in death the wicked cause no trouble,</p><p class="line2">and the weary are at rest.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Even captives are at ease in death,</p><p class="line2">with no guards to curse them.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Rich and poor are both there,</p><p class="line2">and the slave is free from his master.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“Oh, why give light to those in misery,</p><p class="line2">and life to those who are bitter?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>They long for death, and it won’t come.</p><p class="line2">They search for death more eagerly than for hidden treasure.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>They’re filled with joy when they finally die,</p><p class="line2">and rejoice when they find the grave.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Why is life given to those with no future,</p><p class="line2">those God has surrounded with difficulties?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>I cannot eat for sighing;</p><p class="line2">my groans pour out like water.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>What I always feared has happened to me.</p><p class="line2">What I dreaded has come true.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I have no peace, no quietness.</p><p class="line2">I have no rest; only trouble comes.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">3:8 </span><span class="ft">The identification of Leviathan is disputed, ranging from an earthly creature to a mythical sea monster in ancient literature.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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