Job 3:3-16, Jer 15:10 | ESV | STEP | Let the day perish on which I was born , and the night that said , A man is conceived .

Job 3:3-16

3 ^a“Let the day perish on which I was born,
and the night that said,
‘A man is conceived.’
4 Let that day be darkness!
May God above not seek it,
nor light shine upon it.
5 Let gloom and ^bdeep darkness claim it.
Let clouds dwell upon it;
let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6 That night—let thick darkness seize it!
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;
let it not come into the number of the months.
7 Behold, let that night be barren;
let no joyful cry enter it.
8 Let those curse it who curse the day,
who are ready to rouse up ^cLeviathan.
9 Let the stars of its dawn be dark;
let it hope for light, but have none,
nor see ^dthe eyelids of the morning,
10 because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb,
nor hide trouble from my eyes.
11 “Why ^edid I not die at birth,
come out from the womb and expire?
12 Why did ^fthe knees receive me?
Or why the breasts, that I should nurse?
13 For then I would have lain down and been quiet;
I would have slept; then I would have been at rest,
14 with kings and counselors of the earth
who ^grebuilt ruins for themselves,
15 or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver.
16 Or why was I not as a hidden ^hstillborn child,
as infants who never see the light?

Jeremiah 15:10

Jeremiah’s Complaint

10 ⁱWoe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! ^jI have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me.