Job 3:1
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.
Job 3:2
And Job spoke, and said,
Job 3:3
Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a mail child conceived.
Job 3:4
Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shades of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Job 3:6
As [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.
Job 3:7
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
Job 3:8
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
Job 3:9
Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
Job 3:10
Because it prevented not my birth, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.
Job 3:11
Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] expire at the time of my birth?
Job 3:12
Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?
Job 3:13
For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Job 3:14
With kings and counselors of the earth, who built desolate places for themselves;
Job 3:15
Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Job 3:16
Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
Job 3:17
There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary are at rest.
Job 3:18
[There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Job 3:19
The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.
Job 3:20
Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter [in] soul;
Job 3:21
Who long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Job 3:22
Who rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?
Job 3:23
[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Job 3:24
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Job 3:25
For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.
Job 3:26
I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.