Darby - Job - 3

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

3:2  And Job answered and said,

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

3:4  That day — let it be darkness, let notGod care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it:

3:5  Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.

3:6  That night — let gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

3:7  Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;

3:8  Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to rouse Leviathan;

3:9  Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it wait for light, and have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the dawn:

3:10  Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.

3:11  Wherefore did I not die from the womb, — come forth from the belly and expire?

3:12  Why did the knees meet me? and wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?

3:13  For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

3:14  With kings and counsellors of the earth, who build desolate places for themselves,

3:15  Or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver;

3:16  Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

3:17  There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the wearied are at rest.

3:18  The prisoners together are at ease; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

3:19  The small and great are there, and the bondman freed from his master.

3:20  Wherefore is light given to him that is in trouble, and life to those bitter of soul,

3:21  Who long for death, and it [cometh] not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

3:22  Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? —

3:23  To the man whose way is hidden, and whomGod hath hedged in?

3:24  For my sighing cometh before my bread, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.

3:25  For I feared a fear, and it hath come upon me, and that which I dreaded hath come to me.

3:26  I was not in safety, neither had I quietness, neither was I at rest, and trouble came.