Jubilee2000 - 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 in which 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 redeem 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 unto the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

3:7  O, let that night be solitary; let no song come therein!

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 dawn be darkened; they waited for light, but [have] none; neither let them see the dawning of the day;

3:10  because it did not shut up the doors of my [mother's] womb nor hide the misery from my eyes.

3:11  Why did I not die from the womb? [Why] did I [not] give up the spirit when I came out of the belly?

3:12  Why did the knees receive me? Of what use the breasts that I should suck?

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

3:14  with the kings and the 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, [why] was I not hidden as an untimely birth, as infants [who] 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 do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

3:19  The small and the 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 unto the bitter [in] soul;

3:21  who long for death, but it [comes] not; and search for it more than for hid treasures;

3:22  who rejoice exceedingly [and] are glad when they can find the grave;

3:23  to the man who does not know which way he goes and whom God has hedged in?

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

3:25  For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

3:26  I never had prosperity, nor did I secure myself, neither was I at rest; yet trouble came.: