Job 3
1 After this Job opened his mouth, and
cursed his day, 2 saying,
3 Let the day perish in which I was
born, and that night in which they said, Behold a man-child!
4 Let that night be darkness, and let
not the Lord regard it from above, neither let light come upon it.
5 But let darkness and the shadow of
death seize it; let blackness come upon it;
6 let that day and night be cursed,
let darkness carry them away; let it not come into the days of the year,
neither let it be numbered with the days of the months.
7 But let that night be pain, and let
not mirth come upon it, nor joy. 8 But
let him that curses that day curse it, even he that
is ready to attack the great whale.
9 Let the stars of that night be
darkened; let it remain dark, and not come into
light; and let it not see the morning star arise:
10 because it shut not up the gates
of my mother's womb, for so it would have removed
sorrow from my eyes.
11 For why died I not in the belly?
and why did I not come forth from the womb and die
immediately? 12 And why did the knees
support me? and why did I suck the breasts?
13 Now I should have lain down and
been quiet, I should have slept and been at rest,
14 with kings
and councillors of the earth, who gloried in
their swords;
15 or with rulers, whose gold was
abundant, who filled their houses with silver:
16 or
I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding
from his mother's womb, or as infants who never saw light.
17 There the ungodly have burnt out
the fury of rage; there the wearied in body rest.
18 And the men of old time have
together ceased to hear the exactor's voice.
19 The small and great are there, and
the servant that feared his lord.
20 For why is light given to those
who are in bitterness, and life to the souls which are in griefs?
21 who desire death, and obtain it
not, digging for it as
for treasures;
22 and would be very joyful if they
should gain it? 23 Death
is rest to such a man, for
God has hedged him in. 24 For my
groaning comes before my food, and I weep being beset with terror.
25 For the terror of which I
meditated has come upon me, and that which I had feared has befallen me.
26 I was not at peace, nor quiet, nor
had I rest; yet wrath came upon me.