Job 3

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 mother'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 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 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