Passage · Old Testament
Job 3:11-26
Job.3.11-Job.3.26
Explore this passage in the graph11“Why did I not die at birth,
come out from the womb and expire? 12Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse? 13For then I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept; then I would have been at rest, 14with kings and counselors of the earth
who rebuilt ruins for themselves, 15or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver. 16Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child,
as infants who never see the light? 17There the wicked cease from troubling,
and there the weary are at rest. 18There the prisoners are at ease together;
they hear not the voice of the taskmaster. 19The small and the great are there,
and the slave is free from his master. 20“Why is light given to him who is in misery,
and life to the bitter in soul, 21who long for death, but it comes not,
and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, 22who rejoice exceedingly
and are glad when they find the grave? 23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
whom God has hedged in? 24For my sighing comes instead of my bread,
and my groanings are poured out like water. 25For the thing that I fear comes upon me,
and what I dread befalls me. 26I am not at ease, nor am I quiet;
I have no rest, but trouble comes.” Read this passage at the publisher: Read in NIV · Read in ESV
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