The Book of Job 3

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1 After this opened Job his mouth and cursed his day ⚑

2 And Job spake and said ⚑

3 Let the day perish wherein I was born and the night in which it was said There is a man child conceived ⚑

4 Let that day be darkness let not God regard it from above neither let the light shine upon it ⚑

5 Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it let a cloud dwell upon it let the blackness of the day terrify it ⚑

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 ⚑

7 Lo let that night be solitary let no joyful voice come therein ⚑

8 Let them curse it that curse the day who are ready to raise up their mourning ⚑

9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark let it look for light but have none neither let it see the dawning of the day ⚑

10 Because it shut not up the doors of my other’s womb nor hid sorrow from mine eyes ⚑

11 Why died I not from the womb why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly ⚑

12 Why did the knees prevent me or why the breasts that I should suck ⚑

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

14 With kings and counsellors of the earth which built desolate places for themselves ⚑

15 Or with princes that had gold who filled their houses with silver ⚑

16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been as infants which never saw light ⚑

17 There the wicked cease from troubling and there the weary be at rest ⚑

18 There the prisoners rest together they hear not the voice of the oppressor ⚑

19 The small and great are there and the servant is free from his master ⚑

20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery and life unto the bitter in soul ⚑

21 Which long for death but it cometh not and dig for it more than for hid treasures ⚑

22 Which rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they can find the grave ⚑

23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid and whom God hath hedged in ⚑

24 For my sighing cometh before I eat and my roarings are poured out like the waters ⚑

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

26 I was not in safety neither had I rest neither was I quiet yet trouble came ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain