Job 3

1After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth. 2Job answered: 3the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’ “Let the day perish in which I was born, 4Don’t let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it. Let that day be darkness. 5Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it. Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. 6Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. 7Let no joyful voice come therein. Behold, let that night be barren. 8who are ready to rouse up leviathan. Let them curse it who curse the day, 9Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning, Let the stars of its twilight be dark. 10nor did it hide trouble from my eyes. because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, 11Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? “Why didn’t I die from the womb? 12Or why the breast, that I should nurse? Why did the knees receive me? 13I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, For now should I have lain down and been quiet. 14who built up waste places for themselves; with kings and counselors of the earth, 15who filled their houses with silver: or with princes who had gold, 16as infants who never saw light. or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, 17There the weary are at rest. There the wicked cease from troubling. 18They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster. There the prisoners are at ease together. 19The servant is free from his master. The small and the great are there. 20life to the bitter in soul, “Why is light given to him who is in misery, 21and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, Who long for death, but it doesn’t come; 22and are glad, when they can find the grave? who rejoice exceedingly, 23whom God has hedged in? Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, 24My groanings are poured out like water. For my sighing comes before I eat. 25That which I am afraid of comes to me. For the thing which I fear comes on me, 26but trouble comes.” I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;