NHEBME - Job - 3

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

3:2  Job answered:

3:3  "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'

3:4  Let that day be darkness. Do not let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.

3:5  Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

3:6  As for that night, let thick darkness seize on 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 voice come therein.

3:8  Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

3:9  Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

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

3:11  "Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

3:12  Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should suck?

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

3:14  with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste 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 who never saw light.

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

3:18  There the prisoners are at ease together. They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.

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

3:20  "Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

3:21  Who long for death, but it doesn't come; and dig for it more than for hidden 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, whom God has hedged in?

3:24  For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

3:25  For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

3:26  I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; but trouble comes."