Chapter 3

  After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.  

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  And Job spake, and said,  

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  Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.  

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  Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.  

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  Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.  

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  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.  

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  Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.  

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  Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.  

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  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:  

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  Because it shut not up the doors of my [mother's] womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.  

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  Why died I not from the womb? [why] did I [not] give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?  

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  Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?  

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  For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,  

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  With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;  

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  Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:  

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  Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.  

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  There the wicked cease [from] troubling; and there the weary be at rest.  

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  [There] the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.  

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  The small and great are there; and the servant [is] free from his master.  

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  Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;  

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  Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;  

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  Which rejoice exceedingly, [and] are glad, when they can find the grave?  

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  [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?  

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  For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.  

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  For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.  

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  I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.  

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