Job 3

1. (Job 3:1) After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
2. (Job 3:2) And Job spake, and said,
3. (Job 3:3) Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
4. (Job 3:4) Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
5. (Job 3:5) Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
6. (Job 3:6) 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. (Job 3:7) Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
8. (Job 3:8) Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
9. (Job 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:
10. (Job 3:10) Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11. (Job 3:11) Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12. (Job 3:12) Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13. (Job 3:13) For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
14. (Job 3:14) With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;
15. (Job 3:15) Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
16. (Job 3:16) Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
17. (Job 3:17) There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
18. (Job 3:18) There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
19. (Job 3:19) The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
20. (Job 3:20) Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
21. (Job 3:21) Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
22. (Job 3:22) Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
23. (Job 3:23) Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
24. (Job 3:24) For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
25. (Job 3:25) For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
26. (Job 3:26) I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.