Job 3

1 Job 3:1 Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

2 Job 3:2 And Job said,

3 Job 3:3 “Let the day perish on which I was to be born, And the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’

4 Job 3:4 “May that day be darkness; Let not God above care for it, Nor light shine on it.

5 Job 3:5 “Let darkness and black gloom claim it; Let a cloud settle on it; Let the blackness of the day terrify it.

6 Job 3:6 “As for that night, let darkness seize it; Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; Let it not come into the number of the months.

7 Job 3:7 “Behold, let that night be barren; Let no joyful shout enter it.

8 Job 3:8 “Let those curse it who curse the day, Who are prepared to rouse Leviathan.

9 Job 3:9 “Let the stars of its twilight be darkened; Let it wait for light but have none, And let it not see the breaking dawn;

10 Job 3:10 Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb, Or hide trouble from my eyes.

11 Job 3:11 “Why did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire?

12 Job 3:12 “Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?

13 Job 3:13 “For now I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,

14 Job 3:14 With kings and with counselors of the earth, Who rebuilt ruins for themselves;

15 Job 3:15 Or with princes who had gold, Who were filling their houses with silver.

16 Job 3:16 “Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be, As infants that never saw light.

17 Job 3:17 “There the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary are at rest.

18 Job 3:18 “The prisoners are at ease together; They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.

19 Job 3:19 “The small and the great are there, And the slave is free from his master.

20 Job 3:20 “Why is light given to him who suffers, And life to the bitter of soul,

21 Job 3:21 Who long for death, but there is none, And dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

22 Job 3:22 Who rejoice greatly, And exult when they find the grave?

23 Job 3:23 “Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has hedged in?

24 Job 3:24 “For my groaning comes at the sight of my food, And my cries pour out like water.

25 Job 3:25 “For what I fear comes upon me, And what I dread befalls me.

26 Job 3:26 “I am not at ease, nor am I quiet, And I am not at rest, but turmoil comes.”