| Job 3:1 |
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his [birth.] |
| Job 3:2 |
And Job responded and said, |
| Job 3:3 |
Let the day on which I was born perish, / And the night which said, A man has been conceived. |
| Job 3:4 |
Let that day be darkness; / Let God not seek it from above, / Nor let light shine upon it. |
| Job 3:5 |
Let darkness and the shadow of death reclaim it; / Let a cloud dwell upon it; / Let the things that blacken the day terrify it. |
| Job 3:6 |
As for that night, let deep darkness take hold of it; / Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; / Let it not come up in the number of the months. |
| Job 3:7 |
Behold, let that night be barren; / Let no joyous shout come in it. |
| Job 3:8 |
Let those curse it who curse the day, / Who are ready to rouse leviathan. |
| Job 3:9 |
Let its predawn stars be dark; / Let it wait for light and there be none, / And do not let it see the eyelids of the dawn. |
| Job 3:10 |
For it did not shut up the doors of the womb [that bore] me, / Nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. |
| Job 3:11 |
Why did I not die at birth, / Come forth from the womb and expire? |
| Job 3:12 |
Why did the knees receive me? / And why the breasts, that I should suck? |
| Job 3:13 |
For now I would have lain down and been undisturbed; / I would have slept; then I would have been at rest |
| Job 3:14 |
With kings and counselors of the earth, / Who rebuilt ruins for themselves; |
| Job 3:15 |
Or with princes who had gold, / Who filled their houses with silver. |
| Job 3:16 |
Or like a miscarriage that has been concealed, I would not have been, / Like infants that do not see the light. |
| Job 3:17 |
There the wicked cease from [their] troubling, / And there the weary rest. |
| Job 3:18 |
Captives are altogether at ease; / They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster. |
| Job 3:19 |
The small and the great are there, / And the servant is free from his master. |
| Job 3:20 |
Why does He give light to him who suffers / And life to the bitter in soul, |
| Job 3:21 |
Who wait for death, but it is not there; / And dig for it more than for hidden treasures; |
| Job 3:22 |
Who rejoice to the point of exultation / And are glad when they have found the grave; |
| Job 3:23 |
To the man whose way is hidden / And whom God has hedged in? |
| Job 3:24 |
For my sighing comes as my food, / And my groaning pours out like water. |
| Job 3:25 |
For I dread something, and it comes upon me; / And what I fear comes to me. |
| Job 3:26 |
I have no ease and I have no quiet / And I have no rest, but trouble comes. |