Job 3
1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
2 Job answered:
3 “Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
4 Let that day be darkness. Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.
5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.
6 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.
7 Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein.
8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
10 because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
11 “Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
12 Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
13 For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;
15 or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;
16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
17 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.
18 There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19 The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.
20 “Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,
21 who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
22 who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
25 For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me.
26 I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”
Ngaahi fetuʻutaki veesi
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- 1Jer 20:14–15, Psa 106:33, Psa 39:2–3, Job 35:16, Job 3:3, Job 2:5, Job 1:22, Job 2:9–10
- 3Jer 15:10, Jer 20:14–18, Job 10:18–19
- 4Jol 2:2, Exo 10:22–23, Rev 16:10, Amo 5:18, Mat 27:45, Act 27:20, Deu 11:12
- 5Job 10:21–22, Job 28:3, Psa 23:4, Jer 2:6, Psa 107:10, Jer 4:28, Psa 107:14, Jer 13:16
- 7Isa 13:20–22, Isa 24:8, Jer 7:34, Rev 18:22–23
- 8Job 41:1, Job 41:10, Mrk 5:38, Mat 11:17, 2Ch 35:25, Jer 9:17–18, Job 41:25, Amo 5:16
- 9Job 41:18, Job 30:26, Jer 8:15, Jer 13:16
- 10Ecc 6:3–5, Gen 20:18, Jer 20:17, Job 23:2, 1Sa 1:5, Ecc 11:10, Job 6:2–3, Job 10:1
- 11Job 10:18–19, Isa 46:3, Psa 58:8, Psa 22:9–10, Hos 9:14, Psa 139:13–16, Psa 71:6, Jer 15:10
- 12Isa 66:12, Gen 30:3, Gen 50:23, Ezk 16:4–5
- 13Job 21:13, Job 14:10–12, Ecc 9:10, Job 10:22, Job 7:21, Ecc 6:3–5, Job 7:8–10, Job 19:27
- 14Job 15:28, Isa 14:10–16, Psa 89:48, Psa 49:14, Job 12:17, Ezk 27:18–32, Ezk 26:20, Psa 49:6–10
- 15Job 22:25, 1Ki 10:27, Zep 1:18, Num 22:18, Zec 9:3, Isa 2:7, Job 12:21, Job 27:16–17
- 16Psa 58:8, Ecc 6:3, 1Co 15:8
- 17Rev 14:13, Job 17:16, Isa 57:1–2, Heb 4:11, Heb 4:9, Job 14:13, Mat 10:28, 2Th 1:6–7
- 18Job 39:7, Jdg 4:3, Exo 5:15–19, Isa 14:3–4, Exo 5:6–8
- 19Job 30:23, Ecc 12:7, Ecc 8:8, Psa 49:2, Heb 9:27, Psa 49:14–20, Ecc 12:5, Luk 16:22–23
- 20Jer 20:18, Job 7:15–16, Pro 31:6, 1Sa 1:10, Job 33:30, 2Ki 4:27, Job 3:16, Job 6:9
- 21Rev 9:6, Pro 2:4, Jon 4:3, Num 11:15, Jon 4:8, 1Ki 19:4
- 23Job 19:8, Lam 3:7, Isa 40:27, Hos 2:6, Job 19:12, Job 12:14, Psa 31:8, Lam 3:9
- 24Psa 102:9, Psa 42:3–4, Psa 80:5, Psa 38:8, Psa 32:3, Job 33:20, Job 7:19, Isa 59:11
- 25Job 1:5, Job 30:15, Job 31:23
- 26Job 7:14, Psa 143:11, Job 27:9