Job Chapter 3

3 : 1 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

3 : 2 And Job spoke, and said,

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

3 : 4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine on it.

3 : 5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

3 : 6 As for that night, let darkness seize on it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

3 : 7 See, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

3 : 8 Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

3 : 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:

3 : 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.

3 : 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

3 : 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?

3 : 13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

3 : 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;

3 : 15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

3 : 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

3 : 17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

3 : 18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

3 : 19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

3 : 20 Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

3 : 21 Which long for death, but it comes not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

3 : 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

3 : 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?

3 : 24 For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

3 : 25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come on me, and that which I was afraid of is come to me.

3 : 26 I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.