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Job Deplores His Birth

1 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
2 And Job1 spoke, and said: 
3 “Maya the day perish on which I was born,
And the night in which it was said,
‘A male child is conceived.’ 
4 May that day be darkness;
May God above not seek it,
Nor the light shine upon it.
5 May darkness and athe shadow of death claim it;
May a cloud settle on it;
May the blackness of the day terrify it. 
6 As for that night, may darkness seize it;
May it not1 rejoice among the days of the year,
May it not come into the number of the months. 
7 Oh, may that night be barren!
May no joyful shout come into it!
8 May those curse it who curse the day,
Those awho are ready to arouse Leviathan. 
9 May the stars of its morning be dark;
May it look for light, but have none,
And not see the1 dawning of the day; 
10 Because it did not shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,
Nor hide sorrow from my eyes.
11 “Whya did I not die at birth?
Why did I not1 perish when I came from the womb? 
12 aWhy did the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse? 
Verse Comparison: Job 3:3

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American Standard Version
Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

Amplified® Bible
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which announced, There is a man-child conceived.

Contemporary English Version
Blot out the day of my birth and the night when my parents created a son.

Darby English Version
Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.

Good News Bible
(SEE 3:2)

King James Version
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

New American Standard Bible
"Let the day perish on which I was to be born, And the night {which} said, `A boy is conceived.'

New International Version
"May the day of my birth perish,
and the night it was said, 'A boy is born!'

New King James Version
“May the day perish on which I was born,
And the night in which it was said,
‘A male child is conceived.’

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
" Let the day perish on which my nativity occurred, And the night which said, 'A boy has become conceived.'

Revised Standard Version
"Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night which said, 'A man-child is conceived.'

Young's Literal Translation
Let the day perish in which I am born, And the night that hath said: `A man-child hath been conceived.'


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