Verse 4
Job 3:4
New Living Translation
4
Let that day be turned to darkness.<br>Let it be lost even to God (Elohim) on high,<br>and let no light shine on it.<br>
Original Language Text
hebrew
הַ/יּ֥וֹם הַ/ה֗וּא יְֽהִ֫י חֹ֥שֶׁךְ אַֽל יִדְרְשֵׁ֣/הוּ אֱל֣וֹהַּ מִ/מָּ֑עַל וְ/אַל תּוֹפַ֖ע עָלָ֣י/ו נְהָרָֽה
English Translation
The day will be darkness; let him not seek God from above, and do not bring a river upon me.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 3 Context
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At last Job spoke, and he cursed the day of his birth.
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He said:
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“Let the day of my birth be erased,<br>and the night I was conceived.<br>
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Let that day be turned to darkness.<br>Let it be lost even to God (Elohim) on high,<br>and let no li...
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Let the darkness and utter gloom claim that day for its own.<br>Let a black cloud overshadow it,<br>...
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Let that night be blotted off the calendar,<br>never again to be counted among the days of the year,...
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Let that night be childless.<br>Let it have no joy.<br>
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Let those who are experts at cursing —<br>whose cursing could rouse Leviathan —<br>curse that day.<b...
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Let its morning stars remain dark.<br>Let it hope for light, but in vain;<br>may it never see the mo...
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Curse that day for failing to shut my mother’s womb,<br>for letting me be born to see all this troub...
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“Why wasn’t I born dead?<br>Why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?<br>
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Why was I laid on my mother’s lap?<br>Why did she nurse me at her breasts?<br>
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Had I died at birth, I would now be at peace.<br>I would be asleep and at rest.<br>
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I would rest with the world’s kings and prime ministers,<br>whose great buildings now lie in ruins.<...
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I would rest with princes, rich in gold,<br>whose palaces were filled with silver.<br>
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Why wasn’t I buried like a stillborn child,<br>like a baby who never lives to see the light?<br>
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For in death the wicked cause no trouble,<br>and the weary are at rest.<br>
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Even captives are at ease in death,<br>with no guards to curse them.<br>
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Rich and poor are both there,<br>and the slave is free from his master.<br>
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“Oh, why give light to those in misery,<br>and life to those who are bitter?<br>
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They long for death, and it won’t come.<br>They search for death more eagerly than for hidden treasu...
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They’re filled with joy when they finally die,<br>and rejoice when they find the grave.<br>
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Why is life given to those with no future,<br>those God (Elohim) has surrounded with difficulties?<b...
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I cannot eat for sighing;<br>my groans pour out like water.<br>
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What I always feared has happened to me.<br>What I dreaded has come true.<br>
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I have no peace, no quietness.<br>I have no rest; only trouble comes.”<br>
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