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Job 3:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Finally, Job cursed the day of his birth

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Try taking away everything he owns, and he will curse you to your face.”

In spite of everything, Job did not sin or accuse God of doing wrong.

For seven days and nights, they sat silently on the ground beside him, because they realized what terrible pain he was in.

Try striking Job's own body with pain, and he will curse you to your face.”

by saying to God:

Blot out the day of my birth and the night when my parents created a son.

Everything you have said adds up to nonsense.

Then Moses got into trouble for speaking in anger.

I wish I had never been born! I'm always in trouble with everyone in Judah. I never lend or borrow money, but everyone curses me just the same.