Job 3

¹After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

²And Job spake, and said,

³Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

⁴Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

⁶As 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.

⁷Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

⁸Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

⁹Let 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:

¹⁰Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.

¹¹Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

¹²Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

¹³For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

¹⁴With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

¹⁵Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

¹⁶Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

¹⁸There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

¹⁹The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

²⁰Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;

²¹Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

²²Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

²³Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

²⁴For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

²⁵For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

²⁶I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

Job 3

¹After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.

²And Job spoke, and said,

³Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a mail child conceived.

⁴Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

⁵Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

⁶As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

⁷Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

⁸Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

⁹Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

¹⁰Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.

¹¹Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] expire at the time of my birth?

¹²Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?

¹³For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

¹⁴With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;

¹⁵Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

¹⁶Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.

¹⁷There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary are at rest.

¹⁸[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

¹⁹The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.

²⁰Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter [in] soul;

²¹Who long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

²²Who 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?

²⁴For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

²⁵For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.