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## đ Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
# **II. Jobâs Dialogue With His Friends ([3:1-27:23](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job.3.1-Job.27.23&version=NET))**
## Job Regrets His Birth
[[#Verse 01.]] After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.Â
[[#Verse 02.]] Job spoke up and said:
[[#Verse 03.]] âLet the day on which I was born perish,
and the night that said,
âA man has been conceived!â
[[#Verse 04.]]Â That dayâlet it be darkness;
let not God on high regard it,
nor let light shine on it!
[[#Verse 05.]] Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it;
let a cloud settle on it;
let whatever blackens the day terrify it.
[[#Verse 06.]] That nightâlet darkness seize it;
let it not be included among the days of the year;
let it not enter among the number of the months!
[[#Verse 07.]] Indeed, let that night be barren;
let no shout of joy penetrate it!
[[#Verse 08.]] Let those who curse the day curse itâ
those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.
[[#Verse 09.]] Let its morning stars be darkened;
let it wait for daylight but find none,
nor let it see the first rays of dawn,
[[#Verse 10.]] because it did not shut the doors of my motherâs womb on me,
nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
### Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth
[[#Verse 11.]] âWhy did I not die at birth,
and why did I not expire
as I came out of the womb?
[[#Verse 12.]]Â Why did the knees welcome me,
and why were there two breasts
that I might nurse at them?
[[#Verse 13.]] For now I would be lying down
and would be quiet,
I would be asleep and then at peace
[[#Verse 14.]] with kings and counselors of the earth
who built for themselves places now desolate,
[[#Verse 15.]]Â or with princes who possessed gold,
who filled their palaces with silver.
[[#Verse 16.]] Or why was I not buried
like a stillborn infant,
like infants who have never seen the light?
[[#Verse 17.]] There the wicked cease from turmoil,
and there the weary are at rest.
[[#Verse 18.]] There the prisoners relax together;
they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
[[#Verse 19.]] Small and great are there,
and the slave is free from his master.
### Longing for Death
[[#Verse 20.]] âWhy does God give light to one who is in misery,
and life to those whose soul is bitter,
[[#Verse 21.]] to those who wait for death that does not come,
and search for it
more than for hidden treasures,
[[#Verse 22.]] who rejoice even to jubilation,
and are exultant when they find the grave?
[[#Verse 23.]] Why is light given to a man
whose way is hidden,
and whom God has hedged in?
[[#Verse 24.]] For my sighing comes in place of my food,
and my groanings flow forth like water.
[[#Verse 25.]] For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me,
and what I feared has come upon me.
[[#Verse 26.]] I have no ease, I have no quietness;
I cannot rest;Â turmoil has come upon me.â
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