Job 3

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Job Laments His Birth

3 After this Job ^(A)opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. ²And Job said:

³^(B)“Let the day perish on which I was born,
    and the night that said,
    ‘A man is conceived.’
⁴Let that day be darkness!
    May God above not seek it,
    nor light shine upon it.
⁵Let gloom and ^(C)deep darkness claim it.
    Let clouds dwell upon it;
    let the blackness of the day terrify it.
⁶That night—let thick darkness seize it!
    Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
    let it not come into the number of the months.
⁷Behold, let that night be barren;
    let no joyful cry enter it.
⁸Let those curse it who curse the day,
    who are ready to rouse up ^(D)Leviathan.
⁹Let the stars of its dawn be dark;
    let it hope for light, but have none,
    nor see ^(E)the eyelids of the morning,
¹⁰because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb,
    nor hide trouble from my eyes.

¹¹“Why ^(F)did I not die at birth,
    come out from the womb and expire?
¹²Why did ^(G)the knees receive me?
    Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
¹³For then I would have lain down and been quiet;
    I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,
¹⁴with kings and counselors of the earth
    who ^(H)rebuilt ruins for themselves,
¹⁵or with princes who had gold,
    who filled their houses with silver.
¹⁶Or why was I not as a hidden ^(I)stillborn child,
    as infants who never see the light?
¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling,
    and there the weary are at ^(J)rest.
¹⁸There the prisoners are at ease together;
    they hear not the voice of ^(K)the taskmaster.
¹⁹The small and the great are there,
    and the slave is free from his master.

²⁰“Why is light given to him who is in misery,
    and life to ^(L)the bitter in soul,
²¹who ^(M)long for death, but it comes not,
    and dig for it more than for ^(N)hidden treasures,
²²who rejoice exceedingly
    and are glad when they find the grave?
²³Why is light given to a man whose ^(O)way is hidden,
    whom God has ^(P)hedged in?
²⁴For my sighing comes ^(Q)instead of^[a] my bread,
    and my ^(R)groanings are poured out like water.
²⁵^(S)For the thing that I fear comes upon me,
    and what I dread befalls me.
²⁶I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;
    I have no rest, but trouble comes.”

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Footnotes

Job 3:24 Or like; Hebrew before

Acts 9:10-19

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¹⁰Now there was a disciple at Damascus named ^(A)Ananias. The Lord said to him in a vision, “Ananias.” And he said, ^(B)“Here I am, Lord.” ¹¹And the Lord said to him, “Rise and go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man ^(C)of Tarsus named Saul, for behold, he is praying, ¹²and he has seen in a vision a man named Ananias come in and ^(D)lay his hands on him so that he might regain his sight.” ¹³But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, ^(E)how much evil he has done to ^(F)your ^(G)saints at Jerusalem. ¹⁴And here he has authority from ^(H)the chief priests to bind all who ^(I)call on your name.” ¹⁵But the Lord said to him, “Go, for ^(J)he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name ^(K)before the Gentiles and ^(L)kings and the children of Israel. ¹⁶For ^(M)I will show him how much ^(N)he must suffer ^(O)for the sake of my name.” ¹⁷So ^(P)Ananias departed and entered the house. And ^(Q)laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came has sent me so that you may regain your sight and ^(R)be filled with the Holy Spirit.” ¹⁸And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and ^(S)he regained his sight. Then ^(T)he rose and was baptized; ¹⁹and ^(U)taking food, he was strengthened.

Saul Proclaims Jesus in Synagogues

For ^(V)some days he was with the disciples at Damascus.

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John 6:41-51

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⁴¹So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, ^(A)“I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴²They said, ^(B)“Is not this Jesus, ^(C)the son of Joseph, whose father and mother ^(D)we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” ⁴³Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. ⁴⁴No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me ^(E)draws him. And ^(F)I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵It is written in the Prophets, ^(G)‘And they will all be ^(H)taught by God.’ ^(I)Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— ⁴⁶^(J)not that anyone has seen the Father except ^(K)he who is from God; he ^(L)has seen the Father. ⁴⁷Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(M)whoever believes has eternal life. ⁴⁸^(N)I am the bread of life. ⁴⁹^(O)Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and ^(P)they died. ⁵⁰^(Q)This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it ^(R)and not die. ⁵¹I am the living bread ^(S)that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give ^(T)for the life of the world is ^(U)my flesh.”