Job 3
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 counsellors * 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 * .
