# Job 3 [[Job 2|←]] • [[Job 4|→]] --- ### 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 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 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 none; neither let it see the dawning of the day: ### 10 Because it shut not up the doors of my womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. ### 11 Why died I not from the womb? did I 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 counsellers 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 never saw light. ### 17 There the wicked cease troubling; and there the weary be at rest. ### 18 the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. ### 19 The small and great are there; and the servant free from his master. ### 20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter soul; ### 21 Which long for death, but it not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; ### 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, are glad, when they can find the grave? ### 23 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.