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Job 3

1 Job complaineth and curseth the day of his birth. 11 He desireth to dye, as though death were the end of all man’s misery.
1.a bAfterward Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
2.And Job cryed out, and said,
3.Let the daye cperish, wherein I was borne, and the night when it was said, There is a manchilde conceived.
4.Let the day be darkenes, let not God dregarde it from above, nether let the light shine upon it,
5.But let darkness, and the eshadowe of death stain it: let the cloude remaine upon it, and let them make it fearful as a bitter day.
6.Let darkness possesse that night, let it not be joined unto the dayes of the yere, nor let it come into the count of the moneths.
7.Yea, desolate be that night, and let no joye be in it.
8.Let them that curse the day, (being fready to renue their mourning) curse it.
9.Let the starres of that twilight be dim through darkness of it: let it loke for light, but have none: nether let it gse ^the dawning of the daye,
10.Because it shut not up the dores of my mother’s womb: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes.
11.hWhy dyed I not in that birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe?
12.Why did the knees prevent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?
13.For so shulde I now have ilyen & bene quiet, I shulde have slept then, and bene at rest,
14.With the Kings and counsellers of the earth, which have buylded them selves kdesolate places:
15.Or with the princes that had golde, and have filled their houses with silver.
16.Or why was I not hid, as an untimely birth, ether as infants, which have not seen the light?
17.The wicked lhave there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest. 4: 10 Elipház answereth.
18.The mprisoners rest together, and heare not the voyce of the oppressour.
19.There are small and great, and the servant is fre from his master.
20.Wherefore is the light given to him that is in miserie? and nlife unto them that have heavy hearts?
21.Which long for death, and if it come not, they wolde even search it more then treasures:
22.Which joye for gladnes and rejoyce, when they can find the grave.
23.Why is the light given to the man whose way is ohid, and whom God hathe hedged in?
24.For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my rorings are powred out like the water.
25.For the thing I pfeared, is come upon me, and the thing that I was afrayed of, is come unto me.
26.I had no peace, nether had I quietness, nether had I rest, qyet trouble is come.

Notes

1-a.
The seven days ended, Ch. 2.13.
1-b.
Here Job begins to feel his great imperfection in this battle between the Spirit and the flesh, Rom. 7.18, and after a manner yields, yet in the end he gets victory, though he was in the meantime greatly wounded.
3-c.
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-d.
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.
5-e.
That is, most obscure darkness, which makes them afraid of death, that are in it.
8-f.
Which curse the day of their birth, let them lay that curse upon this night.
9-^.
Ebr., the eyelids of the morning.
9-g.
Let it be always night, and never see day.
11-h.
This and that which follows declares that when man gives place to his passions, he is not able to stay nor keep measure, but runs headling into all evil, accept God call him back.
13-i.
The vehemency of his afflictions made him to utter these words, as though death were the end of all miseries and as if there were no life after this, which he speaks not as though it were so, but the infirmities of his flesh caused him to brast out into this error of the wicked.
14-k.
He notes the ambition of them, which for their pleasure, as it were, change the order of nature, and build in most barren places, because they would hereby make their names immortal.
17-l.
That is, by death the cruelty of the tyrants has ceased. 3 Geneva Bible 1560
18-m.
All they that sustain any kind of calamity and misery in this world which he speaks after the judgement of the flesh.
20-n.
He shows that the benefits of God are not comfortable, except the heart be joyful, and the conscience quieted.
23-o.
That sees not how to come out of his miseries, because he depends not on God’s providence.
25-p.
In my prosperity I looked ever for a fall, as is come now to pass.
26-q.
The fear of troubles that should ensue, caused my prosperity to seem to me as nothing, and yet I am not exempted from trouble.