Job Laments His Birth 1 AKJV After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. BSB BSB: After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.
2 AKJV And Job spoke, and said, BSB BSB: And this is what he said:
3 AKJV Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. BSB BSB: “May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
4 AKJV Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine on it. BSB BSB: If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.
5 AKJV Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. BSB BSB: May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.
6 AKJV As for that night, let darkness seize on it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. BSB BSB: If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.
7 AKJV See, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. BSB BSB: Behold, may that night be barren; may no joyful voice come into it.
8 AKJV Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. BSB BSB: May it be cursed by those who curse the day—those prepared to rouse Leviathan.
9 AKJV Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: BSB BSB: May its morning stars grow dark; may it wait in vain for daylight; may it not see the breaking of dawn.
10 AKJV Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from my eyes. BSB BSB: For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
11 AKJV Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? BSB BSB: Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb?
12 AKJV Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? BSB BSB: Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?
13 AKJV For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, BSB BSB: For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
14 AKJV With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves; BSB BSB: with kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves cities now in ruins,
15 AKJV Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: BSB BSB: or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver.
16 AKJV Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. BSB BSB: Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
17 AKJV There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. BSB BSB: There the wicked cease from raging, and there the weary find rest.
18 AKJV There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. BSB BSB: The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.
19 AKJV The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master. BSB BSB: Both small and great are there, and the slave is freed from his master.
20 AKJV Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul; BSB BSB: Why is light given to the miserable, and life to the bitter of soul,
21 AKJV Which long for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; BSB BSB: who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,
22 AKJV Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? BSB BSB: who rejoice and greatly exult when they reach the grave?
23 AKJV Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in? BSB BSB: Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
24 AKJV For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. BSB BSB: I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.
25 AKJV For the thing which I greatly feared is come on me, and that which I was afraid of is come to me. BSB BSB: For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
26 AKJV I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. BSB BSB: I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come.”
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