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