| 3:1 | After all this, Job finally opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born. |
| 3:2 | Job said, |
| 3:3 | "Scratch out the day I was born and the night that said, 'A boy has been conceived!' |
| 3:4 | "That daylet it be pitchblack. Let God above not even care about it. Let no light shine on it. |
| 3:5 | Let the darkness and long shadows claim it as their own. Let a dark cloud hang over it. Let the gloom terrify it. |
| 3:6 | "That nightlet the blackness take it away. Let it not be included in the days of the year or be numbered among the months. |
| 3:7 | Let that night be empty. Let no joyful singing be heard in it. |
| 3:8 | Let those who curse the day (those who know how to wake up Leviathan) curse that night. |
| 3:9 | Let its stars turn dark before dawn. Let it hope for light and receive none. Let it not see the first light of dawn |
| 3:10 | because it did not shut the doors of the womb from which I came or hide my eyes from trouble. |
| 3:11 | "Why didn't I die as soon as I was born and breathe my last breath when I came out of the womb? |
| 3:12 | Why did knees welcome me? Why did breasts let me nurse? |
| 3:13 | Instead of being alive, I would now be quietly lying down. I would now be sleeping peacefully. |
| 3:14 | I would be with the kings and the counselors of the world who built for themselves what are now ruins. |
| 3:15 | I would be with princes who had gold, who filled their homes with silver. |
| 3:16 | I would be buried like a stillborn baby. I would not exist. I would be like infants who never saw the light. |
| 3:17 | There the wicked stop their raging. There the weary are able to rest. |
| 3:18 | There the captives have no troubles at all. There they do not hear the shouting of the slave driver. |
| 3:19 | There you find both the unimportant and important people. There the slave is free from his master. |
| 3:20 | "Why give light to one in misery and life to those who find it so bitter, |
| 3:21 | to those who long for death but it never comes though they dig for it more than for buried treasure? |
| 3:22 | They are ecstatic, delighted to find the grave. |
| 3:23 | Why give light to those whose paths have been hidden, to those whom God has fenced in? |
| 3:24 | "When my food is in front of me, I sigh. I pour out my groaning like water. |
| 3:25 | What I fear most overtakes me. What I dread happens to me. |
| 3:26 | I have no peace! I have no quiet! I have no rest! And trouble keeps coming!" |
Job 3 - God's Word Translation
