New Living Translation (NLT)
Job 3
9 Let its morning stars remain dark. Let it hope for light, but in vain; may it never see the morning light.
10 Curse that day for failing to shut my mother’s womb, for letting me be born to see all this trouble.
11 “Why wasn’t I born dead? Why didn’t I die as I came from the womb?
12 Why was I laid on my mother’s lap? Why did she nurse me at her breasts?
13 Had I died at birth, I would now be at peace. I would be asleep and at rest.
14 I would rest with the world’s kings and prime ministers, whose great buildings now lie in ruins.
15 I would rest with princes, rich in gold, whose palaces were filled with silver.
16 Why wasn’t I buried like a stillborn child, like a baby who never lives to see the light?
17 For in death the wicked cause no trouble, and the weary are at rest.
18 Even captives are at ease in death, with no guards to curse them.
19 Rich and poor are both there, and the slave is free from his master.
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