1 Job complaineth, and curseth the day of his birth.  11 He desireth to die, as though death were the end of all man’s misery.

Afterward [a]Job opened his mouth, and [b]cursed his day.

And Job cried out, and said,

Let the day [c]perish wherein I was born, and the night when it was said, There is a man child conceived.

Let that day be darkness, let not God [d]regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it,

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Footnotes

  1. Job 3:1 The seven days ended, Job 2:13.
  2. Job 3:1 Here Job beginneth to feel his great imperfection in this battle between the spirit and the flesh, Rom. 7:18, and after a manner yieldeth, yet in the end he getteth victory, though he was in the mean time greatly wounded.
  3. Job 3:3 Men ought not to be weary of their life, and curse it, because of the infirmities that it is subject unto, but because they are given to sin and rebellion against God.
  4. Job 3:4 Let it be put out of the number of days, and let it not have the light of the Sun to separate it from the night.

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