3Job 3

Job's Complaint to God

1Finally Job broke the silence and cursed the day on which he had been born.Select Job 3:1

Job

3O God, put a curse on the day I was born; put a curse on the night when I was conceived!Select Job 3:3

4Turn that day into darkness, God. Never again remember that day; never again let light shine on it.Select Job 3:4

5Make it a day of gloom and thick darkness; cover it with clouds, and blot out the sun.Select Job 3:5

6Blot that night out of the year, and never let it be counted again;Select Job 3:6

7make it a barren, joyless night.Select Job 3:7

8Tell the sorcerers to curse that day, those who know how to control Leviathan.Select Job 3:8

9Keep the morning star from shining; give that night no hope of dawn.Select Job 3:9

10Curse that night for letting me be born, for exposing me to trouble and grief.Select Job 3:10

11I wish I had died in my mother's womb or died the moment I was born.Select Job 3:11

12Why did my mother hold me on her knees? Why did she feed me at her breast?Select Job 3:12

13If I had died then, I would be at rest now,Select Job 3:13

14sleeping like the kings and rulers who rebuilt ancient palaces.Select Job 3:14

15Then I would be sleeping like princes who filled their houses with gold and silver,Select Job 3:15

16or sleeping like a stillborn child.Select Job 3:16

17In the grave wicked people stop their evil, and tired workers find rest at last.Select Job 3:17

18Even prisoners enjoy peace, free from shouts and harsh commands.Select Job 3:18

19Everyone is there, the famous and the unknown, and slaves at last are free.Select Job 3:19

20Why let people go on living in misery? Why give light to those in griefSelect Job 3:20

21They wait for death, but it never comes; they prefer a grave to any treasure.Select Job 3:21

22They are not happy till they are dead and buried;Select Job 3:22

23God keeps their future hidden and hems them in on every side.Select Job 3:23

24Instead of eating, I mourn, and I can never stop groaning.Select Job 3:24

25Everything I fear and dread comes true.Select Job 3:25

26I have no peace, no rest, and my troubles never end.Select Job 3:26