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Job’s First Speech

At last Job spoke, and he cursed the day of his birth.

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14 Yet I curse the day I was born!
    May no one celebrate the day of my birth.
15 I curse the messenger who told my father,
    “Good news—you have a son!”

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33 They made Moses angry,[a]
    and he spoke foolishly.

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Footnotes

  1. 106:33 Hebrew They embittered his spirit.

But as I stood there in silence—
    not even speaking of good things—
    the turmoil within me grew worse.
The more I thought about it,
    the hotter I got,
    igniting a fire of words:

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16 But you are talking nonsense, Job.
    You have spoken like a fool.”

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“Let the day of my birth be erased,
    and the night I was conceived.

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His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to maintain your integrity? Curse God and die.”

10 But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.

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But reach out and take away his health, and he will surely curse you to your face!”

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22 In all of this, Job did not sin by blaming God.

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11 But reach out and take away everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face!”

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