RWebster - Job - 3

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

3:2  And Job spoke, and said,

3:3  Let the day perish when 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.

3:5  Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

3:6  As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined to the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

3:7  Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come in it.

3:8  Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.

3:9  Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

3:10  Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from my eyes.

3:11  Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the womb?

3:12  Why did the knees receive me? or why the breasts that I should be nursed?

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

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

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

3:16  Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

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

3:18  There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

3:19  The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

3:20  Why is light given to him that is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

3:21  Who long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

3:22  Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

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

3:24  For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

3:25  For the thing which I greatly feared hath come upon me, and that which I feared hath come to me.

3:26  I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.