After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. Jer 20:14-15Psa 106:33Psa 39:2-3Job 1:22Job 2:5Job 2:9-10Job 3:3Job 35:16 Job answered: Jdg 18:14
“Let the day perish in which I was born, Jer 20:14-18Jer 15:10Job 10:18-19
the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
Let that day be darkness. Act 27:20Amo 5:18Deu 11:12Exo 10:22-23Jol 2:2Mat 27:45Rev 16:10
Don’t let God from above seek for it,
neither let the light shine on it.
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Job 10:21-22Job 28:3Jer 2:6Psa 23:4Deu 4:11Ezk 34:12Isa 9:2Jer 13:16
Let a cloud dwell on it.
Let all that makes the day black terrify it.
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.
Behold, let that night be barren. Isa 13:20-22Isa 24:8Jer 7:34Rev 18:22-23
Let no joyful voice come therein.
Let them curse it who curse the day, Job 41:1Job 41:102Ch 35:25Amo 5:16Jer 9:17-18Job 41:25Mat 11:17Mrk 5:38
who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Job 41:18Jer 13:16Jer 8:15Job 30:26
Let it look for light, but have none,
neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, Ecc 6:3-5Gen 20:18Jer 20:171Sa 1:5Ecc 11:10Gen 29:31Job 10:1Job 23:2
nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Isa 46:3Job 10:18-19Hos 9:14Jer 15:10Psa 139:13-16Psa 22:9-10Psa 58:8Psa 71:6
Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
Why did the knees receive me? Gen 30:3Isa 66:12Gen 50:23Ezk 16:4-5
Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
For now I should have lain down and been quiet. Ecc 9:10Job 14:10-12Job 21:13Ecc 6:3-5Job 10:22Job 17:13Job 19:27Job 21:23
I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
with kings and counselors of the earth, Job 15:28Isa 14:10-16Psa 49:14Psa 89:481Ki 11:43Ecc 8:8Ezk 26:20Ezk 27:18-32
who built up waste places for themselves;
or with princes who had gold, 1Ki 10:27Job 22:25Zep 1:18Isa 2:7Job 12:21Job 27:16-17Num 22:18Zec 9:3
who filled their houses with silver;
or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, Psa 58:8Ecc 6:31Co 15:8
as infants who never saw light.
There the wicked cease from troubling. Rev 14:13Job 17:16Heb 4:11Heb 4:9Isa 57:1-2Job 14:132Th 1:6-7Luk 12:4
There the weary are at rest.
There the prisoners are at ease together. Job 39:7Exo 5:15-19Exo 5:6-8Isa 14:3-4Jdg 4:3
They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
The small and the great are there. Ecc 12:7Ecc 8:8Job 30:23Ecc 12:5Heb 9:27Luk 16:22-23Psa 49:14-20Psa 49:2
The servant is free from his master.
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, Jer 20:18Job 7:15-161Sa 1:10Pro 31:62Ki 4:27Job 3:16Job 33:30Job 6:9
life to the bitter in soul,
who long for death, but it doesn’t come; Rev 9:6Pro 2:41Ki 19:4Jon 4:3Jon 4:8Num 11:15
and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
who rejoice exceedingly,
and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, Job 19:8Lam 3:7Isa 40:27Hos 2:6Job 12:14Job 19:12Lam 3:9Psa 31:8
whom God has hedged in?
For my sighing comes before I eat. Psa 102:9Psa 42:3-4Psa 80:5Psa 38:8Isa 59:11Job 33:20Job 6:7Job 7:19
My groanings are poured out like water.
For the thing which I fear comes on me, Job 1:5Job 30:15Job 31:23
that which I am afraid of comes to me.
I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; Job 7:14Job 27:9Psa 143:11
but trouble comes.”