(GWT) Job 3 : 1 After all this, Job [finally] opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.
(GWT) Job 3 : 2 Job said,
(GWT) Job 3 : 3 "Scratch out the day I was born and the night that said, 'A boy has been conceived!'
(GWT) Job 3 : 4 "That day- let it be pitch-black. Let God above not [even] care about it. Let no light shine on it.
(GWT) Job 3 : 5 Let the darkness and long shadows claim it as their own. Let a dark cloud hang over it. Let the gloom terrify it.
(GWT) Job 3 : 6 "That night- let the blackness take it away. Let it not be included in the days of the year or be numbered among the months.
(GWT) Job 3 : 7 Let that night be empty. Let no joyful singing be heard in it.
(GWT) Job 3 : 8 Let those who curse the day (those who know how to wake up Leviathan) curse that night.
(GWT) Job 3 : 9 Let its stars turn dark before dawn. Let it hope for light and receive none. Let it not see the first light of dawn
(GWT) Job 3 : 10 because it did not shut the doors of the womb [from which I came] or hide my eyes from trouble.
(GWT) Job 3 : 11 "Why didn't I die as soon as I was born and breathe my last breath when I came out of the womb?
(GWT) Job 3 : 12 Why did knees welcome me? Why did breasts let me nurse?
(GWT) Job 3 : 13 Instead of being alive, I would now be quietly lying down. I would now be sleeping peacefully.
(GWT) Job 3 : 14 I would be with the kings and the counselors of the world who built for themselves [what are now] ruins.
(GWT) Job 3 : 15 I would be with princes who had gold, who filled their homes with silver.
(GWT) Job 3 : 16 I would be buried like a stillborn baby. I would not exist. I would be like infants who never saw the light.
(GWT) Job 3 : 17 There the wicked stop their raging. There the weary are able to rest.
(GWT) Job 3 : 18 There the captives have no troubles at all. There they do not hear the shouting of the slave driver.
(GWT) Job 3 : 19 There [you find] both the unimportant and important people. There the slave is free from his master.
(GWT) Job 3 : 20 "Why give light to one in misery and life to those who find it so bitter,
(GWT) Job 3 : 21 to those who long for death but it never comes- though they dig for it more than for buried treasure?
(GWT) Job 3 : 22 They are ecstatic, delighted to find the grave.
(GWT) Job 3 : 23 Why give light to those whose paths have been hidden, to those whom God has fenced in?
(GWT) Job 3 : 24 "When my food is in front of me, I sigh. I pour out my groaning like water.
(GWT) Job 3 : 25 What I fear most overtakes me. What I dread happens to me.
(GWT) Job 3 : 26 I have no peace! I have no quiet! I have no rest! And trouble keeps coming!"