Job 3:3
May the day perish on which I was born, and the night, in which it was said, “A man has been conceived.”
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Job 10:18Why did you lead me out of the womb? If only I had been consumed, so that no eye would ever see me!
Jeremiah 20:14Cursed is the day on which I was born! The day on which my mother gave birth to me: let it not be blessed!
Matthew Henry on Job 3:2-11
Job Curses His Day. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. 2 And Job spake, and said, 3 Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived. 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. 6 As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto… Read the whole commentary →