      | ¶ | After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. | |
 | And Job spake, and said, | ||
| Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived. | ||
| Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. | ||
| Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. | ||
| Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. | ||
| 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: | ||
| Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. | ||
| Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? | ||
| Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? | ||
| For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, | ||
| With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves; | ||
| Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: | ||
| Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light. | ||
| There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest. | ||
| [There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor. | ||
| The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master. | ||
| Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul; | ||
| Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; | ||
| Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave? | ||
| [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? | ||
| For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. | ||
| For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. | ||
| I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came. |
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Job - Chapter 3
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