Job 3

¹After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.

²And Job answered and said:

³Let the day perish wherein I was born,

⁴Let that day be darkness;

⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own;

⁶As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it:

⁷Lo, let that night be barren;

⁸Let them curse it that curse the day,

⁹Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark:

¹⁰Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb,

¹¹Why died I not from the womb?

¹²Why did the knees receive me?

¹³For now should I have lain down and been quiet;

¹⁴With kings and counsellors of the earth,

¹⁵Or with princes that had gold,

¹⁶Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,

¹⁷There the wicked cease from troubling;

¹⁸There the prisoners are at ease together;

¹⁹The small and the great are there:

²⁰Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery,

²¹Who long for death, but it cometh not,

²²Who rejoice exceedingly,

²³Why is light given to a man whose way is hid,

²⁴For my sighing cometh before I eat,

²⁵For the thing which I fear cometh upon me,

²⁶I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;