Job 3

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

²And Job spake, and said,

³Let the day perish wherein I was born,

⁴Let that day be darkness;

⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it;

⁶As for that night, let darkness seize upon it;

⁷Lo, let that night be solitary,

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 prevent me?

¹³For now should I have lien still and been quiet,

¹⁴With kings and counsellers 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 rest together;

¹⁹The small and great are there;

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

²¹Which long for death, but it cometh not;

²²Which 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 greatly feared is come upon me,

²⁶I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet;