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