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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 build 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.
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