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   From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   Day 3, 3 January 2026   
      
   1) Job 3, Job4, Job 5, Job 6   
      
   Job 3   
   Job Laments His Birth   
      
   1 After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.   
   2 Job said:   
   3  "Let the day perish in which I was born   
   and the night in which it was said, `A male child is conceived.'   
   4 As for that day, let it be darkness;   
   let God above not regard it;   
   and let not light shine upon it.   
   5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it;   
   let a cloud settle on it;   
   let the blackness of the day terrify it.   
   6 As for that night, let darkness capture it;   
   let it not rejoice among the days of the year;   
   let it not come into the number of the months.   
   7 Yes, as for that night, let it be barren!   
   Let no joyful cry come into it!   
   8  Let them curse it who curse any day,   
   those who are prepared to rouse Leviathan. (Leviathan, a sea dinosaur?)   
   9  Let its morning stars be dark;   
   let it look for light, but have none;   
   let it not see the rays of dawn,   
   10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb,   
   nor hide trouble from my eyes.   
   11" Why did I not die at birth?   
   Why did I not expire when I came out of the womb?   
   12  Why did her knees receive me?   
   And why her breasts that I should nurse?   
   13 For now I would be lying down and would be at peace;   
   I would have slept; then there would be rest for me,   
   14   with kings and counselors of the earth,   
   who built ruins for themselves,   
   15 or with princes who had gold,   
   who filled their houses with silver.   
   16 Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child,   
   like infants who never saw light?   
   17 There the wicked will have stopped causing trouble,   
   and there the exhausted will rest.   
   18  Captives will relax together;   
   they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.   
   19 The small and great, they are there,   
   and the servant is free from his master.   
   20 "Why is light given to the miserable,   
   and life unto the bitter in soul,   
   21  who look for death, but it is not there;   
   and they search for it more than for hidden treasures;   
   22 who rejoice exceedingly,   
   and they are glad when they find the grave?   
   23  And why is light given to a man   
   whose way is hidden,   
   whom God has hedged in?   
   24 For my sighing comes before I eat,   
   and my groaning pours forth like the waters.   
   25 For the thing which I greatly feared has happened to me,   
   and that which I dreaded has come to me.   
   26 I am not at peace; I have no quiet,   
   I cannot rest, and turmoil has come."   
      
   [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   
   the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.   
   [7] Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.   
   [8] Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their   
   mourning.   
   [9] Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light,   
   but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:   
   [10] Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow   
   from mine eyes.   
   [11] Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I   
   came out of the belly?   
   [12] Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?   
   [13] For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept:   
   then had I been at rest,   
   [14] With kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places   
   for themselves;   
   [15] Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:   
   [16] Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never   
   saw light.   
   [17] There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.   
   [18] There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the   
   oppressor.   
   [19] The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.   
   [20] Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the   
   bitter in soul;   
   [21] Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for   
   hid treasures;   
   [22] Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?   
   [23] Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged   
   in?   
   [24] For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like   
   the waters.   
   [25] For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I   
   was afraid of is come unto me.   
   [26] I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet   
   trouble came.   
      
   Job 4   
   Eliphaz Speaks: Job Has Sinned   
   1Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered:   
   2(Job 32:18-20) "If one attempts a word with you, will you be impatient?   
   But who can keep from speaking?   
   3(Isa 35:3) Surely you have instructed many,   
   and you have strengthened the weak hands.   
   4(Heb 12:12) Your words have raised up him who was falling,   
   and you have fortified the feeble knees.   
   5(Job 19:21) But now it comes upon you, and you are weary;   
   it reaches even you, and you are terrified.   
   6(Job 1:1; Pr 3:26) Is not your reverence your confidence?   
   And the integrity of your ways your hope?   
   7(Ps 37:25) "Remember now, who being innocent ever perished?   
   Or where were the upright ever wiped out?   
   8(Pr 22:8; Gal 6:7-8) Just like I have seen, those who plow iniquity   
   and sow trouble, reap the same.   
   9(Job 15:30; Isa 30:33 ) By the breath of God they perish,   
   and by the blast of His anger they are destroyed.   
   10(Ps 58:6; Job 29:17) The roaring of the lion,   
   and the voice of the fierce lion,   
   and the teeth of the young lions are broken.   
   11(Ps 34:10) The old lion perishes for lack of prey,   
   and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.   
   12(Job 26:14) "Now a word was brought to me secretly,   
   and my ear received a whisper of it.   
   13(Ge 2:21; 15:12) Amid disquieting thoughts from night visions,   
   when deep sleep falls on mortals,   
   14(Hab 3:16) terror and trembling came to me,   
   which made all my bones shake.   
   15 A breath of wind was passing before my face,   
   and the hair on my body was standingup.   
   16(1Ki 19:12) It stood still,   
   but I could not recognize its appearance;   
   a form was in front of my eyes,   
   there was stillness, then I heard a voice saying:   
   17(Job 9:2; 25:4) 'Can a mortal be more righteous than God?   
   Can a man be more pure than his Maker?   
   18 He does not trust in His servants,   
   and He charges His angels with error;   
   19(Ge 2:7; Job 10:9) Even more, those who dwell in houses of clay,   
   whose foundation is in the dust,   
   who are crushed before the moth.   
   20(Job 20:7) They are broken in pieces from morning to evening;   
   they perish forever without anyone regarding it.   
   21(Job 36:12) Are not their tent ropes plucked up,   
      
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