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Job 3 :: King James Version (KJV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:1 - After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:2 - And Job spake, and said,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:3 - Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:4 - Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:5 - Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:6 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:7 - Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:8 - Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:9 - 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:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:10 - Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:11 - Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:12 - Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:13 - For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:14 - With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:15 - Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:16 - Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:17 - There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:18 - There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:19 - The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:20 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:21 - Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:22 - Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:23 - Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:24 - For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:25 - For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 3:26 - I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.
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The Authorized Version or King James Version (KJV), 1611, 1769.
Outside of the United Kingdom, the KJV is in the public domain. Within the United Kingdom, the rights to the KJV are vested in the Crown.

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