Verse
ASV
American Standard Version
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
After this opened
Job his mouth ,
and cursed his
day.
After this ,
Job opened
his mouth and cursed the
day of
his
birth
.
And Job
answered
and
said:
And this
is
what
he
said:
Let
the day perish wherein
I
was
born
, And the night which
said, There
is
a man-child
conceived.
“May
the day of
my
birth
perish, and the night it
was
said, ‘
A boy
is
conceived. ’
Let
that day be
darkness ;
Let
not
God from
above seek
for
it ,
Neither
let
the
light shine upon it.
If
only
that day had
turned
to
darkness !
May
God above disregard
it ;
may
no
light shine upon it.
Let
darkness and the
shadow
of
death
claim
it for
their
own;
Let
a cloud dwell
upon
it; Let
all
that
maketh
black
the day terrify
it.
May
darkness and gloom
reclaim
it ,
and
a cloud settle
over
it; may
the blackness
of
the
day overwhelm
it.
As
for
that night ,
let
thick
darkness
seize
upon
it:
Let
it not rejoice
among the days of the year; Let
it not
come
into
the
number
of the months.
If
only
darkness
had
taken
that night away!
May
it not appear
among the days of the year; may
it never
be
entered
in
any
of the months.
Lo
, let
that night be barren; Let
no joyful voice come therein
.
Behold
, may
that night be barren; may
no joyful voice come into
it
.
Let
them
curse
it that
curse the day ,
Who
are
ready
to rouse up
leviathan.
May
it be
cursed
by
those
who
curse the day —
those
prepared
to rouse Leviathan.
Let
the
stars of
the
twilight
thereof
be
dark :
Let
it look
for light,
but
have
none
; Neither
let
it behold
the eyelids
of the
morning:
May
its
morning
stars grow
dark ;
may
it wait
in
vain
for daylight
; may
it not
see
the breaking
of dawn.
Because
it
shut
not up
the doors of my
`mother's'
womb ,
Nor
hid
trouble
from mine
eyes.
For
that
night
did
not shut
the doors of the
womb to
hide
the
sorrow
from my
eyes.
Why died
I not from
the
womb?
Why did I not give
up
the ghost
when
my
mother
bare
me
?
Why did
I not perish
at
birth;
why did I not die
as
I
came
from
the womb
?
Why did
the
knees receive me ?
Or
why
the
breast
, that I should suck
?
Why were
there
knees to
receive me, and
breasts
that I should be
nursed
?
For now should
I have
lain
down and
been
quiet;
I
should
have
slept
; then
had
I been
at rest ,
For now I would
be
lying
down in
peace
; I would
be
asleep
and
at rest
With kings and counsellors
of the earth, Who built up
waste
places
for themselves ;
with kings and counselors
of the earth, who built for themselves cities
now
in
ruins,
Or with princes that
had gold, Who filled their houses with silver :
or with princes who
had gold, who filled their houses with silver .
Or as
a
hidden
untimely
birth
I had
not been
, As
infants
that
never saw
light.
Or why
was
I not hidden
like
a
stillborn
child
, like
an
infant
who
never sees
daylight?
There the wicked cease from troubling;
And there the weary are
at
rest.
There the wicked cease from raging,
and there the weary find
rest.
There
the prisoners
are
at
ease together
; They hear
not the voice of the taskmaster
.
The captives
enjoy
their
ease; they do
not hear
the voice of the oppressor
.
The
small and the
great are there :
And the servant
is free
from his master.
Both
small and great are there ,
and the slave
is freed
from his master.
Wherefore
is light given to him
that
is
in
misery
, And life unto
the bitter in
soul ;
Why
is light given to the
miserable
, and life to
the bitter of
soul ,
Who long for death ,
but
it
cometh
not, And dig
for it more
than
for
hid
treasures;
who long for death that
does
not come
, and search
for it like
hidden
treasure,
Who rejoice exceedingly,
And are
glad,
when they can find the grave?
who rejoice and greatly
exult
when they can find the grave?
`
Why is light
given '
to a man whose way is hid
, And
whom God hath
hedged in?
Why is life
given to a man whose way is hidden
, whom God has
hedged in?
For
my
sighing
cometh
before
I eat
, And my groanings
are
poured
out like water.
I sigh
when
food
is
put
before
me
, and my groans
pour
out like water.
For the thing which
I fear
cometh
upon
me, And that
which
I am
afraid
of
cometh
unto
me.
For the thing I feared
has
overtaken
me, and what
I dreaded
has
befallen
me.
I am not at ease ,
neither
am
I
quiet ,
neither
have
I rest ;
But
trouble cometh
.
I am not at ease or
quiet ;
I have
no
rest ,
for
trouble has
come
. ”
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