3Job 3

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

2And Job spake, and said,Select Job 3:2

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

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

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

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.Select Job 3:6

7Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.Select Job 3:7

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

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:Select Job 3:9

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

20Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;Select Job 3:20

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

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

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

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

25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.Select Job 3:25

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