Job Deplores His Birth

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

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14 (A)Cursed be the day in which I was born!
Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!
15 Let the man be cursed
Who brought news to my father, saying,
“A male child has been born to you!”
Making him very glad.

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33 (A)Because they rebelled against His Spirit,
So that he spoke rashly with his lips.

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(A)I was mute with silence,
I held my peace even from good;
And my sorrow was stirred up.
My heart was hot within me;
While I was [a]musing, the fire burned.
Then I spoke with my tongue:

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 39:3 meditating

16 (A)Therefore Job opens his mouth in vain;
He multiplies words without knowledge.”

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

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Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast to your integrity? [a]Curse God and die!”

10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. (A)Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” (B)In all this Job did not (C)sin with his lips.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:9 Lit. Bless, but in an evil sense; cf. Job 1:5

(A)But stretch out Your hand now, and touch his (B)bone and his flesh, and he will surely [a]curse You to Your face!”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:5 Lit. bless, but in an evil sense; cf. Job 1:5

22 (A)In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.

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11 (A)But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely (B)curse[a] You to Your face!”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 1:11 Lit. bless, but in an evil sense; cf. Job 1:5

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