Job 3:1-3

Amplified Bible

3 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. ²^[a]And Job said,

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“Let the day on which I was born perish,
And the night which announced: ‘There is a man-child conceived.’

Job 3:2 The prose introduction ends at v 1 and the poetic heart of the book begins with v 2. One of the features of Hebrew poetry is the prevalence of pairs of statements in which the second statement either is parallel in thought to the first or contrasts with it. There is no rhyming or metrical correspondence.