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New Living Translation (NLT)

Job 2
¹⁰ But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.
¹¹ When three of Job’s friends heard of the tragedy he had suffered, they got together and traveled from their homes to comfort and console him. Their names were Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite.
¹² When they saw Job from a distance, they scarcely recognized him. Wailing loudly, they tore their robes and threw dust into the air over their heads to show their grief.
¹³ Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights. No one said a word to Job, for they saw that his suffering was too great for words.
Job 3
¹ At last Job spoke, and he cursed the day of his birth.
² He said:
³ “Let the day of my birth be erased, and the night I was conceived.
⁴ Let that day be turned to darkness. Let it be lost even to God on high, and let no light shine on it.
⁵ Let the darkness and utter gloom claim that day for its own. Let a black cloud overshadow it, and let the darkness terrify it.
⁶ Let that night be blotted off the calendar, never again to be counted among the days of the year, never again to appear among the months.
⁷ Let that night be childless. Let it have no joy.