Geneva1599 - Job - 3

3:1  Afterward Iob opened his mouth, and cursed his day.

3:2  And Iob cryed out, and sayd,

3:3  Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night when it was sayde, There is a man childe conceiued.

3:4  Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,

3:5  But let darkenesse, and the shadowe of death staine it: let the cloude remayne vpon it, and let them make it fearefull as a bitter day.

3:6  Let darkenesse possesse that night, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, nor let it come into the count of the moneths.

3:7  Yea, desolate be that night, and let no ioy be in it.

3:8  Let them that curse the day, (being readie to renue their mourning) curse it.

3:9  Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it see the dawning of the day,

3:10  Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes.

3:11  Why died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe?

3:12  Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts?

3:13  For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest,

3:14  With the Kings and counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places:

3:15  Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer.

3:16  Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?

3:17  The wicked haue there ceased from their tyrannie, and there they that laboured valiantly, are at rest.

3:18  The prisoners rest together, and heare not the voyce of the oppressour.

3:19  There are small and great, and the seruant is free from his master.

3:20  Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?

3:21  Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:

3:22  Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.

3:23  Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

3:24  For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.

3:25  For the thing I feared, is come vpon me, and the thing that I was afraid of, is come vnto me.

3:26  I had no peace, neither had I quietnesse, neither had I rest, yet trouble is come.